ISLAMABAD: Director General PEPCO Engineer Muhammad Khalid on Saturday said that energy summit conference will be held in the first week of May to chalk out new conservation plan and this would save 1500MW power.
Talking to a private news channel, he hoped that loadshedding would be less this year as compared to past as power generation at Thermal and Hydel has been improved.
To a question, he said that 1200MW electricity would be added to national grid within two months that will help overcome loadshedding in extremely hot weather.
He said the duration of loadshedding in major cities is between five to eight hours while in rural areas the duration is 10 to 12 hours.
All out efforts were being made to minimize power load- shedding and the situation will improve soon, he added.
He said water level in the dam starts rising by May end and hopefully then the power generation at the dam will improve.
The water inflow of the dam is satisfactory and its water level is also high as compared to the dead level and to the previous year as well, he said.
Khalid said efforts are underway to keep the shortfall at its minimum and top most priority is to provide power supply to the industry and agriculture sector.
DG PEPCO said no time-frame could be given for elimination of load-shedding.
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