Tag: Power

HONG KONG - Top seeds Europe powered into the final of Hong Kong's World Team Challenge Wednesday, with world number one Caroline Wozniacki and her teammate Aravane Rezai notching straight-sets singles wins.
Danish sensation Wozniacki, 20, dispatched China's top woman Li Na 6-4, 6-3 to help the Europeans to a 4-0 clean sweep in the semi-final clash with Asia-Pacific in the season-opening exhibition. World number 19 Rezai had dismissed Hong Kong's top-ranked player Zhang Ling

ISLAMABAD - International Financial Institutions (IFI) have again advised the government to introduce professional management in power sector entities to curtail the burgeoning circular debt in the power sector, official sources revealed.
The government had dissolved the board of directors of all the power distribution, generation and transmission companies on November 22. However, installation of new boards has been delayed for the previous 40 days; this delay has perturbed

LAHORE - In order to overcome current power crisis, a 150 megawatt power plant will be installed in Punjab with technical support from Turkey, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced after his return from his official visits to Turkey and the United kingdom.
Talking to journalists at the Allama Iqbal International Airport, the chief minister said that the Punjab government signed multiple agreements with the Turkish government in various fields like environment, education and

LAHORE - Water and Power Federal Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf inaugurated the 201MW Reshma Power Plant in Raiwind on Saturday. The plant is currently contributing 40MW as test generation to the national grid.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony, he said that energy was the greatest challenge to the present democratic government that was inherited by the previous regime. The failure of the past government was manifested from the fact that it did not add even a single mega watt to

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will remain in power as long as it retains the majority in the National Assembly, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Wednesday.
"There is no threat to the PPP government and it will remain in power as long as it enjoys majority in the National Assembly", Kaira said at a press briefing here. "Changing the prime minister is only Fazl Rehman's wish and Yusuf Raza Gilani is the prime minister of the whole

ISLAMABAD - The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority on Wednesday reduced power tariff for 8 distribution companies (DISCOs) by Rs 1.08 per unit and that of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) by Rs 0.46 per unit under the monthly fuel adjustment for November.
Under the monthly fuel price adjustment, the power tariff has reduced by Rs 2.09 per unit during the last 4 month. NEPRA reduced power tariff by Rs 0.33 per unit for August, Rs 0.36 per unit for September and

ISLAMABAD - PML-N's Nawaz Sharif is making hostile statements against Muthidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) because he is afraid of party's growing popularity among the youth and people of the middle class. Tahir Khokhar, AJK Minister for Tourism and Parliamentary leader of MQM in AJK Legislative Assembly said in a press conference here on Monday.
"Politicians like Nawaz Sharif, who are accustomed to politics of money, are afraid of MQM's growing popularity among the youth and in the

Karachi - The Lucky Cement Company (LUCK) has started to consider options of transmitting surplus power to its group companies, as nothing has been done by Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) in spite of signing an MoU with the company.
LUCK enjoys a surplus power capacity of around 75-80 MW by dint of its waste heat recovery project (WHRP) and captive power plant, and the company signed an MoU with KESC to transmit 40MW of electricity in October this year.
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LAHORE - Unscheduled load shedding gripped the city on Sunday, as outages of 10 to 14 hours were observed, making life of citizens' miserable, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Despite closure of offices and industries, there was heavy load shedding irking citizens while the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) failed to manage the crisis, as a number of power generation plants went out of order. Instead of acknowledging its failure to cope with load shedding, PEPCO claimed that the

ISLAMABAD: The government has put on hold the increase due in power tariff and petroleum prices as it has received intelligence reports suggesting that the increase might spark countrywide protests.
A source told Pakistan Today that the intelligence agencies had told the government that further increase in power and petroleum prices would lead to protests, which could worsen the law and order situation across the country.
"The increase in tariff has been put on hold for the

KARACHI: The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has reduced the power generation to save fuel, the company sources told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
They said that the hours' long loadshedding in Karachi is artificial, as the KESC is economising on the furnace oil consumption while relying more on the power supply from WAPDA. All the power generating units of KESC were being run on Thursday and Friday last, when the city was exempted from any loadshedding but soon after the

LAHORE: According to Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) reports power shortfall reduced to zero megawatts on Friday and Saturday but even then citizens experienced a one-hour power outage in the morning and one in the evening.
Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) gave an old excuse saying that only commercial feeders were shut down and domestic users on those feeders had to face load shedding. More than 50 percent feeders in the city were commercial and a large number of

KARACHI: Exporters of various sectors have approached the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) and demanded a resolution of unabated power outages, which have hampered industrial production.
Through separate letters, sent to MoC recently, Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturing and Export Association (PHMEA), Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) and Karachi Electronics Dealers Association (KEDA), has notified the ministry of the dampened industrial activity and have asked for immediate

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday directed Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh to form a wing or a cell to expedite resolution of issues regarding release of allocations to the ministries or departments concerned and the provincial governments.
Chairing a meeting with the government's financial team, Gilani stressed the need for an efficient functioning of all the ministries and departments involved in restructuring public sector enterprises to speed up the

LAHORE: Load shedding is all set to return from the last week of December as canals would be closed from December 26 causing hydel power generation to fall sharply while supply of gas to power stations would also be affected, Pakistan Today learnt on Monday.
Sources said there would be at least four to six hours of load shedding from the last week of this month, as electricity generation would be reduced from 20 to 25 percent, adding that water release in the canals would also

LAHORE: The former LCCI senior vice president Abdul Basit, who is also former chairman of the Poultry Association, has urged the government to initiate work on mega water projects including Kalabagh Dam if it wants to save the country from turning into a desert.
Speaking at a seminar on water shortage and its impact on coming generations, the former LCCI Senior Vice President spoke his heart out and alleged that enemies of Pakistan were spending all energies to push Pakistan on

FAISALABAD: Former City District nazim Rana Zahid Tauseef has criticised both the major political parties, the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N, and predicted that the masses will vote them out of power in the next general elections.
"There is a widespread anger among the people against these parties and they are fed up with them," the PML-Q leader and ex-MNA said. "There is a gross dissatisfaction prevailing in the community because they are pursuing a