Tag: Power

SIALKOT - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has planned to show its power in the district as senior PPP leaders, the AJK president, the Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister and Makhdoom Amin Fahim, will address public meetings here.
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Raja Zulqarnain, Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Syed Mehdi Shah and Federal Industries Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim will jointly inaugurate several socio-economic development and public welfare-oriented projects worth

KARACHI - Four hour load-shedding has resulted in Rs 500 million losses in Tannery Zone for the last three days in terms of production hours and damage to stocks. Pakistan Tanners Association (SZ) Chairman Aziz Ahmed, while expressing his grave concern over ongoing load-shedding in industrial areas for the last three days, said that due to abrupt decision of KESC to start four hours electricity load-shedding had resulted in losses of over Rs 500 million and exporters were fearing

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC),under fire from various quarters for purchasing extremely expensive electricity from rental plants, has decided to stop purchasing electricity from a Dubai-based power company from next month, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources told Pakistan Today that KESC officials, during the recently-held public hearing organised by National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA), confirmed that supply from rental generators will be

KARACHI - The Sindh government has issued a termination warning to a Chinese company over the firm's non-tangible progress and non-performance for the development of coal mine-mouth power generation project of 250MW in District Thatta.
According to a letter written to China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC) Project Manager Wang Xuequn by the Coal and Energy Development Department Sindh, the current state of affairs of the firm' project is not in line with

LAHORE - The Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) on Tuesday announced to start two to 10 hours of load shedding due to an increase in shortfall. This was announced by PEPCO Director General (DG) Muhammad Khalid at a press briefing.
He said that urban areas covered by the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) would face two hours and rural areas five hours of closure. The Gujranwala Electric Power Company's (GEPCO) urban areas would face seven hours and rural areas nine hours

KARACHI - The Sindh government agreed to provide land for setting up a wind power project in Thatta district with the capacity to produce 150 megawatt electricity on Saturday. Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah approved the project at a meeting held at the Chief Minister House's House. The plant would be established through the public-private partnership mode.
According to an official handout, the chief minister said that people living in the coastal areas are facing many

KARACHI - SITE Association of Industry Senior Vice Chairman Asad Nisar Barkhurdaria has expressed serious concerns over the rise in power tariff in the head of fuel adjustment charges by National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA). He said that a 96 paisa per unit increase in KESC tariff in the head of fuel adjustment charges, as announced by NEPRA, is detrimental for the industries, already faced with crises.
He stated that the present rate of power tariff is

QUETTA - A complete shutter down was observed here in the city on Friday against gas and power load shedding on the call of Anjuman-e Tajiran Balochistan (ATB). President ATB alleged that government failed to provide protection to the masses and property. The business community demanded the government should end unscheduled power break down throughout the province.
Political parties have also supported the strike call of the business community. ATB President Abdul Rahim Kakar

KARACHI/LAHORE - The cash strapped Pakistan State Oil (PSO) on Thursday refused to supply furnace oil to the power sector due to the non-payment of its dues of Rs 158 billion. PSO has decided to discontinue the fuel supply to power sector to avoid further defaults on part of the sector, sources said.
They said PSO took the decision after oil refineries threatened it with halting fuel supply, and the state-run oil marketing company is now in no position to continue supplies

ISLAMABAD - Former Punjab governor and lawyer for Walters Power International and its associate Pakistan Power Resources (PPR), on Tuesday requested the Supreme Court to direct the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to finalise power tariff for rental power companies at the earliest.
The case of Rental Power Projects (RPPs) was fixed before a four-member Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam

LAHORE - Load-shedding of four to six hours returned on Sunday, as power production decreased due to certain reasons. Despite being a holiday and all offices and shopping centres closed, people continued to suffer from continuous power outages, which added to their miseries. The situation has taken aback consumers who were not ready for a sudden increase in load shedding.
With the wedding season going on in full swing and functions of Rabiul Awal reaching their peak, power

KARACHI - The Sindh government is likely to have municipal and metropolitan corporations-like institutions in order to create a balance of power between nazims and the provincial authorities. The MQM, a coalition partner of the Pakistan People's Party-led Sindh government, has agreed with this proposal, which was presented by the ruling party in a recent meeting, sources told Pakistan Today.
Under the local government system introduced by the PML-Q government in 2002, there were

CAIRO: He survived 10 attempts on his life, and at 82 his health was a subject of speculation. But in the end, it was his people who brought down Egypt's modern-day pharaoh.
Pulling off a second surprise in as many days, President Hosni Mubarak on Friday stepped down and handed over power to the army from whose ranks he emerged, his deputy Omar Suleiman announced on television. Until the outbreak of anti-government protests on January 25, Mubarak seemed insurmountable as

ISLAMABAD - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday announced that it will be providing a loan of $36.8 million to Zorlu Enerji to establish Pakistan's first privately owned and financed wind farm with a planned capacity of 56.4 megawatts of energy.
According to an announcement made by the ADB, Turkish company Zorlu Enerji Electrik Uretim, will use the loan to install wind turbines to increase power generation of its wind farm, in the Sindh province, from the current level of

LAHORE - Punjab Industrial Estate (PIE) is pushing forward with plans to establish power plants not only at Sundar but also at Rahim Yar Khan, Bhalwal and Multan Industrial Estate as well as evaluating alternate energy options. It is working towards the required gas quota and had requested the federal government for special consideration and on instructions of the Punjab chief minister, a special case was taken up with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources but the body has

ROME - Silvio Berlusconi faced two key tests of his support in parliament on Thursday just weeks after he scraped through a no-confidence vote, amid a sex scandal that has hit his approval ratings. A parliamentary committee is set to vote on a federalism law proposed by the right-wing Northern League party, a key ally in the Italian prime minister's ruling coalition, which has enraged opposition parties.
And the full lower house is due to vote at 1800 GMT on a request from Milan

FAISALABAD - A group of thieves, posing as Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) employees, stole three transformers from separate places. The transformers were stolen from Samanabad, Guttwala and Madina Town while FESCO has failed to trace the gang. An average transformer costs Rs 500,000 while the thieves are strealing them just to dismantle the unit and take out the copper wire from it.
The sources said the copper wire of each transformer was sold in scrap market for a