Militants' attack leave 80% of Pakistan without power

[Lux de Veritas]

Over 140 million Pakistanis were left without power after militants attacked the national grid with blasts specifically targeting power pylons. Some are still waiting for power to return.

Pakistan plunges into darkness as attack leaves 140mn without power — RT News

 

[karan21]

What a failure of a nation. These things end a wrong signal to the world. Who would wanna do business in a country like Pakistan?

 

[A.Muqeet khan]

What a failure of a nation. These things end a wrong signal to the world. Who would wanna do business in a country like Pakistan?

i totally agree with you. attacks like these are the ban of pakistan and we have to do some thing about it. off-topic what does your signature mean. i am sure that you can be nationalist without fucking the secularism.

 

[I.R.A]

What a failure of a nation. These things end a wrong signal to the world. Who would wanna do business in a country like Pakistan?

The question is who does not want others to do business in Pakistan, guess and answer is obvious.

 

[SpArK]

The question is who does not want others to do business in Pakistan, guess and answer is obvious.

If this outrage didnt happen, there would have been huge investment announcements and major FDI deals to be signed because of the capability in power and the opportunities in infrastructure which is unparalleled in the region.

 

[syedali73]

Over 140 million Pakistanis were left without power after militants attacked the national grid with blasts specifically targeting power pylons. Some are still waiting for power to return.

Pakistan plunges into darkness as attack leaves 140mn without power — RT News

The news is blown out of proportion. There was power outage but not because of the single terrorist attack on the line coming from Guddu power station. Guddu thermal power station is only one of many power stations in Pakistan and targeting power line coming form one power station can never result in 80% power outage. The reason of power outage was excessive load on certain grids that resulted in the tripping of several feeders, thanks to aging power distribution infrastructure. Government is trying to hide its incompetence behind the single terrorist attack. By looking at the map below, even a 5th grader can figure out that blowing a single transmission line can never result in 80% power outage.

 

[I.R.A]

If this outrage didnt happen, there would have been huge investment announcements and major FDI deals to be signed because of the capability in power and the opportunities in infrastructure which is unparalleled in the region.

I think you meant Outage not Outrage.

Yep there are shortcomings and failure of our governments in ignoring power needs of the country and their lack of anticipating future needs with all their development priorities wrong. Politicians will use any development project for their political point scoring and gain without considering National interest over their own. Having said that it is impossible for any country or government to guard all of the transmission lines at all time.

 

[Lux de Veritas]

The news is blown out of proportion. There was power outage but not because of the single terrorist attack on the line coming from Guddu power station. Guddu thermal power station is only one of many power stations in Pakistan and targeting power line coming form one power station can never result in 80% power outage. The reason of power outage was excessive load on certain grids that resulted in the tripping of several feeders, thanks to aging power distribution infrastructure. Government is trying to hide its incompetence behind the single terrorist attack. By looking at the map below, even a 5th grader can figure out that blowing a single transmission line can never result in 80% power outage.

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Guddu Power Plant: PM launches commissioning of additional units - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

GUDU have an output rating of 2.4GW which is a lot. I am not too sure if an attack there will cause load imbalance to rest of the grid and trigger an cascade power failure.

That depends on the design of your grid, and especially if it is design for fault to be isolated, it will be fine. But if your grid is not, then Gudu could trigger a nation wide black out.

However for a 2.4GW plant causing a nation wide power failure, the transmission line system certainly need to be fixed.

 

[SpArK]

I think you meant Outage not Outrage.

Yep there are shortcomings and failure of our governments in ignoring power needs of the country and their lack of anticipating future needs with all their development priorities wrong. Politicians will use any development project for their political point scoring and gain without considering National interest over their own. Having said that it is impossible for any country or government to guard all of the transmission lines at all time.

True. I have read previously about coal energy projects and clean energy projects in threads here and there was no further developments in that sector.
Options of further more nuclear energy should be negotiated with reliable partner like China and it needs to prioritized in order to address this issue.
If power sector is vulnerable even domestic productivity gets affected.

 

[syedali73]

Guddu Power Plant: PM launches commissioning of additional units - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

GUDU have an output rating of 2.4GW which is a lot. I am not too sure if an attack there will cause load imbalance to rest of the grid and trigger an cascade power failure.

That depends on the design of your grid, and especially if it is design for fault to be isolated, it will be fine. But if your grid is not, then Gudu could trigger a nation wide black out.

However for a 2.4GW plant causing a nation wide power failure, the transmission line system certainly need to be fixed.

Guddu is a thermal power plant, which means its turbines run on furnace oil. We are aware of furnace oil shortage in Pakistan. Secondly, due to the floating debt, none of the power generation units in Pakistan are producing electricity to their maximum capacity. In-fact, even if the floating debt was not there and they were getting sufficient fuel, they just cant produce electricity to their maximum capacity for the power distribution system is incapable of withstanding that kind of load. I doubt if Guddu is generating even half of 2.4GW capacity.

“The government has conveniently blamed sabotage for this breakdown; how about the last three ones? Previously, there have been 168 cases of sabotage on different transmission lines, andNewspaper.National:LatestNews none of them resulted in a national breakdown. How and why this one has resulted differently? That is a question, which needs to be answered,” - Former Head of the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco).

Bad governance, poor maintenance responsible for blackout - Pakistan - DAWN.COM