Electricity consumers across the country have start facing approximately five-hour daily load shedding from December 26, likely to continue until January 31 due to canal desilting campaign. The power shortfall recorded during last 24 hours stood at 3000MW, inching up fast with diminishing hydel resources due to canal desilting campaign. Power generation remained 10015MW against a demand of 12931MW.
Hydel generation was recorded at 2565MW, against 1546MW through thermal, 5842MW through IPPs and 62MW through RPPs. Supply to the KESC remained 690MW. It may be noted that the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) Managing Director, Rasul Khan Mahsud had announced new schedule of load shedding last Friday. He had assured that there would not be any unscheduled load shedding and the company would soon announce the detailed schedule. Last year, there had been 4,500 MW electricity shortfall, however, this year it would not exceed from 1,500MW, he added.
He had informed that the Pepco had paid Rs 26 billion to PSO, while the company had Rs 33 billion more in hand for payment to PSO in order to get better supply of furnace oil for thermal production in coming month. "Pepco has been assured of better fuel supply from Pakistan State Oil, he maintained."