There was an unprecedent aggravation of electric power shortfall, touching 2,000MW mark on Sunday resulting in frequent loadshedding. The shortfall in the demand and supply was 900-MW on Saturday.
The Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) sources confirmed that the total electricity shortfall on Sunday was recorded as 2000-MW due to steep rise in temperatures and owing to technical problems, there was 750-MW shortfall in generation at Uch and Roosh power plants.
The sources said that immediate repairs are underway and both plants are expected back on line within a day. "The 2000-MW shortfall was managed by proportionate distribution (loadshedding) through the Distribution companies", the sources added. In a self praise, the sources clarified that due to satisfactory generation and better management no loadshedding was carried out from 3rd May to 6th May 2009.
The distribution companies were executing their loadshedding programmes in a co-ordinated manner and nowhere in the country normal life was paralysed due to prolonged load management. Meanwhile the Pepco has commissioned its newly built Ghakhar grid station and started supply of electricity to more than two hundred thousand consumers in Sialkot, Narowal, Mandi Bahauddin and Hafizabad districts with the extension of 132-KV lines.
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