Director General of Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco), Ejaz Rafique Qureshi on Tuesday said there would be no load shedding during the Sehar and Iftar across the country. Talking to a private news channel, he said that discontinue of the load shedding during the holy month of Ramazan is our first priority.
To a question, he said that he had directed Operational Directors of all the distribution companies (DISCOs) to chalk out an efficient plan to have minimum outages during Ramazan. He said there is 17,000MW demand across the country while last year it was 13,000 to 14,000MW. The DG, PEPCO said the government would soon overcome the load shedding in the country because 572MW would be added to the new power plants in near future.
Besides that, four major projects would be completed soon including Dhepur 425MW, Gaddo 750MW, UAD gifted plant 320MW and one in Faisalabad, which would bring 2000MW in the system. To another question, he said that Tarbela extension project was under way, which on completion would generate power from 3478MW to 4828MW.
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