Pakistan

New electricity projects to be launched shortly: Kaira

Published October 8, 2011 Updated October 8, 2011 09:12am

Talking to Radio Pakistan, he said PML-N governments of 90s did not add even a single unit of electricity to national grid, and due to this, the nation is now facing shortage of electricity.

Replying to a question about RPPs(Rental Power Producers), he said RPPs are short term arrangement to cover immediate shortfall of electricity.

He acknowledged the fact that the cost of RPPs' electricity is high but the government had no other option except RPPs to tackle energy crisis as all other power generation projects take about five years to generate electricity.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011