CEO K-Electric Moonis Abdullah Alvi on Thursday vowed to ensure maximum relief to consumers during the holy month of Ramazan.
Extending his Ramazan greetings to fellow Muslims, Alvi said that K-Electric will continue to provide maximum relief from load-shed to residential and commercial customers during Sehar and Iftar times.
Understanding that people of Karachi are faced with unprecedented circumstances due to COVID-19 threat and the current lockdown, he said K-Electric is making all efforts to provide reliable power supply despite threats to operational sustainability from ballooning government dues.
KE aims to utilize maximum available generation to manage the shortfall against peak summer demand, and load management, if required, would be carried out with maximum relief to domestic and commercial consumers during Sehar and Iftar.
"During this holy month when everyone will be showing generosity of spirit and offering Ibada'at, I and my team will be working round the clock on the frontlines to ensure reliable supply of power. We have also made significant investments in our networks over the past one year in preparation for the incoming summer season especially the Holy month of Ramadan, including system upgrades as well as increased power offtake from renewable IPPs," he said.
To augment its power supply, he said KE has announced an investment of USD650 million in a state-of-the-art RLNG-based power plant, added the 50-MW Gharo Solar Power Plant as an IPP and has progressed its over USD450 million TP-1000 project with six new grid stations and 26 power transformers already energized.
The power utility has also made investments in the distribution network that has seen an addition of almost 500 new pole-mounted transformers (PMTs) in different parts of the city and up-gradation of 8,000 PMTs to aerial bundled cables (ABCs).
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