- Electricity shortage increased to 5372 MW
ISLAMABAD: Whole country faces unannounced power outage for hours and the National Electricity Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) took this seriously and warned of strict action. against in power distribution company (DISCO) will found involved in carrier out unplanned power shutdowns.
Expression of grave concern over sudden start of hours- didn’t show up for a long time power cuts in country, NEPRA in statement issued on Thursday said he took serious consideration of unplanned power outages across the country and asked electricity consumers to file detailed complaints in in concerned regional offices against disco for carrier out undeclared power load reduction.
NEPRA has also stated that strict measures would be taken against in concerned Divisional Supervisors (SDOs), XENs (Executive Engineers), Superintendents (SEs), and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of in concerned DISCO with proven guilt for carrier out undeclared power cuts in its jurisdiction.
On Thursday, NEPRA Chairman Tausif H. Farooqi, chairing public hearing on fuel price adjustment (FPA) for month of February 2022 said the country currently faced with power deficit of 5,372 megawatts (MW) and 2,139 MW less due to fuel shortages power generated.
Insofar as government claims to power generating power of 40000MW so there should be no influence on in system if five to seven thousand megawatts of electricity is not produced, the chairman of NAPRA said.
It is worth noting that the Ministry of Energy in tweet on Wednesday said, “Because of the outage of 3 nuclear power plants, some areas had to face Today is temporary unloading. Plants will back on in system in a few hours”. However, unannounced power continued load shedding on Thursday nationwide add misery to the masses, industries, commercial and domestic category of in power consumers.
That power consumers in different areas of countries including Peshawar, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan etc. facing up to 10 hours of unplanned power cuts.
Sources in the energy sector stated that on-going power the deficit is mainly due to the crisis in the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG), excluding electricity generation with Hydel source combined with supposed bad administration on part of Ministry of Energy for fuel organization for power generation goals.
energy crisis of the country is getting worse of summer season, and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) forcibly closed gas supplies to compressed natural gas (CNG) stations.
According to senior leader of LNG Association Ghiyas Abdullah Paracha said that gas supply to the LNG sector was suspended due to lack of of gas. He said that government It has failed import full LNG from last three years and because of this mismanagement and fight among ministers people do not receive gas and electricity, but pay for an additional terminal and pipeline cost.
SNGPL not give any schedule/date for restoration of gas supply to the CNG industry, Paracha said.
