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Authorities are scrambling to protect a vital power station supplying electricity to millions of people against a growing threat of flooding, officials said on Monday, taking steps such as building a dyke in front of it. The electricity station in the district of Dadu in Sindh, one of the country’s worst affected areas, supplies power…
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The Federal Government employees residing in government flats have protested against the withdrawal of the facility of payment of electricity bills of heavy water pumps by the Pakistan Public Works Department (Pak PWD). The Pak PWD office has now asked residents of government flats being occupied by employees from BPS-1 to BPS-14 to pool money…
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K-Electric’s clients, who paid higher rates for the electricity they had consumed in July 2022, will be getting refunds of Rs4.117 per unit in their September bills after the power regulator Friday issued its decision that maintained that the power generation cost was low during the month under review while the users were overcharged. The…
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Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has demanded National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) reinstate the past mechanism for fixed charges based on actual maximum demand and the units consumed, a press release revealed on Thursday. “The current practice of fixed charges based on 50 percent of sanctioned load defies all logic…
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The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) Tuesday approved a hike in the electricity tariff by Rs3.39 per unit. The power regulator has hiked the power tariff under the quarterly fuel adjustment mechanism. Already burdened with inflation and rising prices of petroleum products, people will have to bear an additional burden of Rs95 billion in…
The already strained National Grid has been deprived of around 1000mw electricity due to the collapse of the recently completed power lines. No less than four towers of the transmission lines, including those commissioned last year from the 1320mw and 660mw coal power plants in the South with load centers up in the North. The…
On the instructions of the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif and the Federal Minister for Energy (Power Division), Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan, Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) has provided relief to the consumers in the form of fuel price adjustment in view of the rains and floods in the country, says a press release….
IMF warns the second phase of CPEC can ‘pose risk to debt sustainability Pakistan has assured the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that it will “strive” to reduce capacity payments to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) power projects either by renegotiating deals or having loans rescheduled — a big concession that might prove to become costly….
Using solar energy will help save billions of dollars Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday gave the go-ahead for the execution of 10,000 megawatts solar energy project to reduce the import bill of costly diesel and furnace oil. The prime minister made the decision during a meeting called to discuss measures for providing “major relief…
Earlier, the government had announced a FAC waiver for people using electricity up to 200 units Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Thursday announced extending the waiver of fuel adjustment charges (FAC) for people consuming electricity up to 300 units in a month. Addressing the PMLN members of the National and provincial assemblies, he said that despite…
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