Loadshedding increased to six hours

[Dark-Destroyer]

Ganja made motorways what more do you want relax drive up and down the motorway

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

The quickest and cheapest solution for pakistan to get ride of electricity crisis is to go for solar power plant.

It'll be faster for households to buy their own solar panels and install on their rooftops.

Less electricity loss, educated purchase means lower production & maintenance cost, and the already installed UPS for electricity storage.

 

[VCheng]

Anybody who claims to be able to end loadshedding is LYING.

The doubling time of power demand in Pakistan is about 7 years at present rates of growth. The power transmission grid, and management of the billing and payments is utterly atrocious. Circular debt remains a huge and untackled problem.

Loadshedding will remain a near-permanent feature affecting Pakistan for a long time into the future.

 

[jermankill]

The problem in pakistan is that they hardly concentrated on Wind power or bothered to construct more major dams for its energy and irrigation needs.Neither they bothered to create big corporates like Suzlon(Indian company) with installed capacity over 25000 MW of wind power capacity in 31 countries, or companies like Adani.India also have 5,202 large dams,when pakistan hardly have 150 dams.

I can tell lost priorities by many rulers in pakistan for many decades which create this situation....

@jermankill @Talwar e Pakistan @Salman Zahidi @AZADPAKISTAN2009 @Cthulhu @Draco.IMF @TopCat @fatman17 @Areesh @Jungibaaz @Taygibay @Syed.Ali.Haider @Devil Soul

two power plants have been closed owing to technical issues whereas routine repair work is underway
also before Ramadan 6000 MW will b added in national grid so no worry

 

[Areesh]

India had an installed capacity of 3,15,042 MW as of 28 February 2017 and is the 3rd largest in the world after US,China.Even at this capacity still we have to connect some of parts.Pakistan is at around 25,000 MW and India added more than 30,000 MW in a year from 2015-2016, which is more than total installed capacity of pakistan.

Pakistan government should seriously implement better production level rather than on talks....

@fitpOsitive @IceCold @Moonlight @Arsalan @Penguin @Sully3 @tarrar @ali_raza @Zarvan @yavar @SajjLad @Hamadan @T-123456 @storm_eagle @GlobalVillageSpace @hassan1

India gia g***d marwanai .BC kia chutyapa hai yeh. On every thread this f*Cker brings in India. What is this rubbish???

 

[kṣamā]

India gia g***d marwanai .BC kia chutyapa hai yeh. On every thread this f*Cker brings in India. What is this rubbish???

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”

― Otto von Bismarck

 

[Mr.Nair]

Mian Zahid Hussain said that ministry of water and power has said that load shedding in the urban areas have been increased by one hour while the load shedding in the rural areas has been increased by two hours but independent experts have questioned the claim.

He said that demand for electricity in 14800 megawatts excluding Karachi but the supply stands at 9700 megawatts while theft and losses continue to take toll on the situation.

Total demand in the country is said to be 17500 megawatts while shortfall is around 5000 megawatt excluding Karachi, the backbone of Pakistan’s economy, he added.

https://www.geo.tv/latest/136243-Lo...etween-govt-power-producers-intensifies-Zahid

Conflicting statistics as the report above claim that pakistan hardly producing around 12,500 MW !

@syed1 @Areesh

 

[Areesh]

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”

― Otto von Bismarck

"Bharatis are obsessed with Pakistan. It is their inferiority complex that leads to obsession with others." ASny wise man (2017)

 

[Mr.Nair]

Electricity production statistics in South Asia-Pakistan vs Bangladesh 2017

Electricity production in pakistan - 12,500MW(As per above report)
Electricity production in bangladesh- 15,351MW

Pakistan has all added advantage being energy rich Iran on one hand, chinese unlimited support on other hand, but the politicians failed to make much achievement in power sector.Plus the power theft which is common in south asia, creates another big blow for already deficit power production.

 

[Kabira]

India had an installed capacity of 3,15,042 MW as of 28 February 2017 and is the 3rd largest in the world after US,China.Even at this capacity still we have to connect some of parts.Pakistan is at around 25,000 MW and India added more than 30,000 MW in a year from 2015-2016, which is more than total installed capacity of pakistan.

Pakistan government should seriously implement better production level rather than on talks....

@fitpOsitive @IceCold @Moonlight @Arsalan @Penguin @Sully3 @tarrar @ali_raza @Zarvan @yavar @SajjLad @Hamadan @T-123456 @storm_eagle @GlobalVillageSpace @hassan1

Pakistan capacity is about to cross 50,000MW in couple of years after completion of various projects.

Reason for current crisis is between 2000-2013 hardly any new projects were started.

 

[fatman17]

Pakistan capacity is about to cross 50,000MW in couple of years after completion of various projects.

Reason for current crisis is between 2000-2013 hardly any new projects were started.

Part of the problem is the circular debt. when you don't pay the private sector power plants OS, who then can't payoff the oil companies who then can't retire their supplier LCs, the whole supply chain is stopped. We have not been able to operate our already installed capacity efficiently.

 

[tarrar]

The ruling political parties in the past gadari party & today ganja league are not at all serious on solving electricity crises. I they do start a project it exceeds the original cost of the project & goes almost four or five times higher than the original cost, so as a result when project starts, the project is installed with the cheapest material. The good example is of Nelum Jhelum hydro plant.

If Govt. Was serious then we would had seen mass installation of renewable energy projects like solar power, wind mills & big dams such as Bhasha dam & Kalabagh dam, but unfortunately they are not keen or willing at all. All they want to do is corruption.

 

[MystryMan]

Ganja made motorways what more do you want relax drive up and down the motorway

Motorways aren't any personal favor from Ganja to Pakistani people. It was from national kitty but tells like he building it personally.

 

[aryadravida_exmuslim]

South Asian countries should have a shared grid with easy buying and selling of electricity.
This will solve almost every issue.

 

[fatman17]

Opinion

Dr Farrukh Saleem
April 2, 2017

Loadshedding

Capital suggestion

Is loadshedding a generation-capacity issue or a governance issue? That indeed is the mother of all questions. Let us begin with three facts. Fact one: the installed power generation capacity stands at 23,101MW (as per the Pakistan Economic Survey 2015-16). Fact two: on March 28, peak generation stood at 11,055MW. Fact three: on March 28, the government managed to utilise a mere 47.8 percent of the installed capacity.

Conclusion: The country-wide loadshedding that took place on March 28 – for at least sixteen hours in Punjab’s rural areas and for a minimum of six hours in Punjab’s urban areas – was not a generation-capacity issue. Clearly, the real disease is ‘mis-governance’ while the government is treating capacity. That’s like a medical doctor treating the liver while the malfunctioning is with the heart of the patient. Clearly, the patient will never recover.

Here’s the list of power plants that are lying idle because of mis-governance (the government continues to pay capacity payments to all of them): Uch Power, Nandipur, Halmore, Japan Power, Sepcol, Kohinoor and Bhiki. That’s a total of 2,784MW of idle capacity.

Here’s the list of power plants that are running at 50 percent of capacity because of mis-governance: AES, Nishat and Atlas. That’s an installed capacity of 787MW running at 50 percent. Imagine the Guddu Thermal Power Plant with an installed capacity of 2,220MW is producing 350MW because of mis-governance. Clearly, the current loadshedding is not a capacity issue. And the only thing that the government is bent upon is increasing the capacity. Clearly, the patient will never recover.

On March 28, country-wide demand, excluding Karachi, stood at under 15,000MW. And that translates to less than 65 percent of the installed capacity (meaning: if the government manages to utilise 65 percent of the installed capacity there will be little or no loadshedding). Here’s another stinger: On March 28, the system produced 11,055MW but the distribution companies were supplied around 9,700MW. That’s 1,355MW getting lost in thin air, euphemistically ‘line losses’, but in reality ‘mis-governance’.

The real problem once again, euphemistically is ‘circular debt’, which in reality is ‘mis-governance’. To be sure, as the government increases the installed capacity, the spectre of circular debt is bound to grow bigger and become ever more threatening.

Take an automotive manufacturing plant that produces 100 cars a day, for instance. Of the 100 cars being produced a day, 20 are stolen. Of the 100 cars being produced a day, 10 are sold but the sale proceeds are never recovered. This plant is bound to go bankrupt in no time. Let’s say that the government of Pakistan owns that plant. Ingeniously, the government of Pakistan’s solution to the problem is to set up another manufacturing plant (rather than putting an end to the theft and the issue of non-recovery).

Roll back to March 7, 2013. The PML-N came out with a 104-page election manifesto. The term ‘energy’ appeared 42 times: the PML-N made 42 power sector-related promises. In 2013, the circular debt stood at Rs480 billion. In 2017, the circular debt stands at Rs414 billion. In 2014, line losses stood at 18 percent. There’s been no improvement. In 2014, recovery stood at 87.8 percent. There’s been no improvement.

Loadshedding is not a generation-capacity issue. Loadshedding is because of mis-governance. The government is treating capacity; and mis-governance continues. The patient is not going to recover.

The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad.

Email: farrukh15@hotmail.com

Twitter: @saleemfarrukh