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Shortfall reaches 5,000MW as power outages hit Pakistan amid ongoing heatwave

you cant distribute it & cant afford it due to capacity payment & 25% RR

second the requirement is mostly swing requirement, our requirement in winters is half that of summer

so best source would have ben hydro which you can boast during summer season but hey we like furnace oil
Capacity payments are standard all over the world. It ensures you have enough generation on the highest load days and prices don't go to through the roof during shortages.

Texas has an energy only billing approach with no capacity payments.....that's prices went to $1000 dollar a day during the cold weather outages. Plants will have to recoup their operating costs by charging exorbitant amounts during peaks and shortages. You need to do more HW on the power grid. Its not simple as getting rid of capacity payments.

Problem is poor system planning.
 
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According to Hammad Azhar, main issue is a maintenance outage at Tarbela dam. Bad time to schedule maintenance during a heat wave. Plant officials should be questioned for that poor decision.
 
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First of all we have been ruled by corrupt scum who made deal like IPPs that dont produce a single watt but get paid in millions. Its like those deals have been done by enemies of Pakistan. Those scum didn't even care about capacity of transmission. They only filled their pockets and guess what, 3 years of this stupid new PM and not a single person punished for such treachery.
Pakistani people are also senseless and careless and probably deserve even worst. I know many families that have 5 ACs and all running at a time. They wont care to share AC so the load is reduced, they would waste and exploit resources just coz they have alot of haram money and can pay the bills. Then there are areas where kunda culture is common. No bills, just pay 10K to the wapda guy every 3 to 4 months and use as much electricity as possible. These people use older cheaper general ACs that consume alot of power and even use electric stoves. From rich to poor, everyone is corrupt to the level of his reach. The basic Islamic concept of halal and haram has totally vanished in our society.
A frnd n i went to clear his bill for a contract and we had to pay a hundred thousand Rs to the SDO who had a long beard and looked like a thekedar of Islam. He took it proudly as if its his right and would use the money for a sey roza.
May Allah have mercy on our society.
 
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Well there was news of Wind Farms project from last year:

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Pakistani power sector is unique in the world. It has excess power generation capacity but still having chronic loadshedding
Nothing unique about it. There are two aspects to consider -

  • power generation capacity which recieved heavy investment over last few years and now has excess capacity
  • power distribution. All those power lines, grid stations, step down transformers that bring power to your home which has recieved no investment anmd is old.
What happens is when demand surges the distribution system can't handle it and trips/short circuits. The only way is therefore to limit the load on the distribution system.
 
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because they get paid regardless based upon capacity payments..
genius isnt it ..
they even lie about their plant, they mostly install an old plant and cliam it can produce at 70% effiency..it is never tested since our distribution cant handle the load

govt doesn't has the capital to invest since after 18th amendment it has no money
while private sector cant come in as power is already very expensive

again thank the 25% return rate after 2013 as compared to 12% RR of 2001

That's not what I am talking about. You're looking at it from the political angle.

I'm asking, why the businessmen don't want to invest, expand electricity installation and distribution and make billions of dollars from a nation of more than 220 million people?

When you do the maths, it's not exactly rocket science.
 
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you cant distribute it & cant afford it due to capacity payment & 25% RR

second the requirement is mostly swing requirement, our requirement in winters is half that of summer

so best source would have ben hydro which you can boast during summer season but hey we like furnace oil

What hydro project do you think would have been able to overcome power shortage before a waiting period of at least a decade?
Haha are you going to transmit all that excess electricity in shopping bags?

Simple question: why is Government calling it power shortage if as you say, is a distribution issue?
 
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First of all we have been ruled by corrupt scum who made deal like IPPs that dont produce a single watt but get paid in millions. Its like those deals have been done by enemies of Pakistan. Those scum didn't even care about capacity of transmission. They only filled their pockets and guess what, 3 years of this stupid new PM and not a single person punished for such treachery.
Pakistani people are also senseless and careless and probably deserve even worst. I know many families that have 5 ACs and all running at a time. They wont care to share AC so the load is reduced, they would waste and exploit resources just coz they have alot of haram money and can pay the bills. Then there are areas where kunda culture is common. No bills, just pay 10K to the wapda guy every 3 to 4 months and use as much electricity as possible. These people use older cheaper general ACs that consume alot of power and even use electric stoves. From rich to poor, everyone is corrupt to the level of his reach. The basic Islamic concept of halal and haram has totally vanished in our society.
A frnd n i went to clear his bill for a contract and we had to pay a hundred thousand Rs to the SDO who had a long beard and looked like a thekedar of Islam. He took it proudly as if its his right and would use the money for a sey roza.
May Allah have mercy on our society.

i am in similar situation my grandad past away but his bas trd brother family didn't get the power line off line and didn't tell us. now we are asked to pay over 1000s to pay bill n penalty bullshit. the whole village are bastrds they use electricity but the throw the bill on someone elses head.
 
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Nothing unique about it. There are two aspects to consider -

  • power generation capacity which recieved heavy investment over last few years and now has excess capacity
  • power distribution. All those power lines, grid stations, step down transformers that bring power to your home which has recieved no investment anmd is old.
What happens is when demand surges the distribution system can't handle it and trips/short circuits. The only way is therefore to limit the load on the distribution system.
So excess electricity generation was built without revamping the country's transmission system? 😂😂😂
Shahzaib Khanzada exposing the incompetency of the Government as always.

Quoting Patwari channel Geo News 🤔
 
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From PMLN itni electricity bana k chali gai k excess me hai to 5000 MW shortfall the incompetency of PTI continues LOL 😂😂

Like Sugar wheat petrol RLNG Pakistan Railway accidents corruption coronavirus sb PMLN pe blame kia hai let's blame Electricity issue on PMLN as well problem solved
So excess electricity generation was built without revamping the country's transmission system? 😂😂😂

Quoting Patwari channel Geo News 🤔
When you can't counter the facts let's blame it to be Patwari channel 😂😂

You are Fawad Chaudhry of PDF
 
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From PMLN itni electricity bana k chali gai k excess me hai to 5000 MW shortfall the incompetency of PTI continues LOL 😂😂

Like Sugar wheat petrol RLNG Pakistan Railway accidents corruption coronavirus sb PMLN pe blame kia hai let's blame Electricity issue on PMLN as well problem solved
Can't you read? Without robust transmission system, no one can consume excess electricity

Pmln didn't invest in transmission only energy generation with extremely expensive contracts
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When you can't counter the facts let's blame it to be Patwari channel 😂😂

You are Fawad Chaudhry of PDF
Facts? On geo news? 😂😂😂
 
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