No more load shedding from tomorrow - Minister assures.

[niaz]

Pakistan is short of about 3,500 MW. Excess capacity with the power plants is only about 1000, with peak demand and peak production there would still be about 2,500 MW shortage which cannot be overcome in a day.

Secondly electricity is not a commodity like Sugar or Wheat that can be stolen and hoarded / smuggled out. Electricity theft implies that people are consuming electricity but not paying for it thus overall supply /demand balance does not change.

Therefore stopping theft altogether; something impossible in itself in Pakistan environment; would not make additional electricity that others can use. It only means that power plants will get paid for what is actually produced but total consumption remains the same.

I stand by my assertion that power shortage cannot disappear overnight.

 

[Contrarian]

It can be mitigated i think. Gujarat has excess electricity of about 1000 MWs. And this surplus is only rising!!
Its uneconomical for electricity to be sold from Gujarat to deficient states in India, but its very viable to sell it to Pakistan. I think there is even a proposal for such, doing the rounds?

 

[SQ8]

It can be mitigated i think. Gujarat has excess electricity of about 1000 MWs. And this surplus is only rising!!
Its uneconomical for electricity to be sold from Gujarat to deficient states in India, but its very viable to sell it to Pakistan. I think there is even a proposal for such, doing the rounds?

There was one, but not much came of it. cant speculate whether it was due to the economics or politics.

 

[Jango]

Pakistan is short of about 3,500 MW. Excess capacity with the power plants is only about 1000, with peak demand and peak production there would still be about 2,500 MW shortage which cannot be overcome in a day.

Secondly electricity is not a commodity like Sugar or Wheat that can be stolen and hoarded / smuggled out. Electricity theft implies that people are consuming electricity but not paying for it thus overall supply /demand balance does not change.

Therefore stopping theft altogether; something impossible in itself in Pakistan environment; would not make additional electricity that others can use. It only means that power plants will get paid for what is actually produced but total consumption remains the same.

I stand by my assertion that power shortage cannot disappear overnight.

The problem is the absence of money coupled with horrible planning.

we did not plan for 10 years later, and i dont think we have one now either. we should have a plan for about 30 or so years, because a power plant is a long term investment, not a consumable commodity.

And no tax means no money, which means nothing to buy oil with.

 

[no_koadsheding_plz]

RIP to loadsheddoing in Islamabad since last two days

 

[Fracker]

in hasraton se kehdo, kahin or ja bassien
itni jaga kahan hey iss dil-e-daghdar main

 

[no_koadsheding_plz]

and the loadshedding is back since few weeks,,
its 4 hours for ow right in the heart of bhuttostan,, the capital of bhuttostan,, the bhuttostan

 

[salaara579]

he is quite right up to some extent, remeber whole month of november and december there was 24 hour supply of electricity. But load shedding started once they start cleaning rivers and dams. That cleaning work must have been completed plus circular debt must have been decreased some how so no more load shedding until first week of march when weather will start to become warm.

Wont u think, It was since 1st of Muharram-ul-Haram till Cahallum

 

[Luftwaffe]

You say No More? Yesterday it was friggin 3 Hours and Today from 12PM till 6PM in Hayatabad Peshawar.

 

[no_koadsheding_plz]

yar if loadshedding was not enough,, they have increased prices according to time slots,, noe in islamabad from 7-10 one unit costs 26 rs..someone told me,, dont know if its true?

 

[kingkobra]

tomorrow never comes..

 

[Tiger Awan]

You say No More? Yesterday it was friggin 3 Hours and Today from 12PM till 6PM in Hayatabad Peshawar.

9am-12pm
3pm-6pm
8pm-11pm

in rawalpindi

 

[RayKalm]

What a stupid way to get an election boost. All lies.

 

[ziaulislam]

power shortage can be overcome in few months why?
because time and again all power companies have told the media that its not running on full capacity purely due to lack of fuel due to circular debt..in other words if circular debt is solved somehow and power plants run on full capacity nearly all shortage can be over come..whenever the circular debt increases too much govt starts doing outages to limit the debt..during outages it depends upon cheaper hydro based electrcity ..

500MW deficit usually manifest in 1 hour of loadshedding..even if we have a deficiet of 1-2thousand MW it shouldnt be severe laod shedding we see these days

 

[Nothing]

Hope this will end soon. If government put private company in charge atlest ppl who is paying will get uninterrupted power and power theft will reduce by great percentage,.