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Abbasi said the government needed time to rectify the power shortage as the country was producing 21,000 megawatts and there was a shortfall of 4,000 megawatts Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) leader and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said Monday the government was “sorry” for the ongoing electricity loadshedding in the country and vowed to…

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Ex-PM Shahid Khaqan says from June 30 load-shedding will be 1.5 hours a day | Apologises people for excessive load shedding | Purchasing expensive LNG due to PTI govt’s ‘negligence’ | Govt not charging a single penny as a tax on petrol prices ISLAMABAD – Former prime minister and PML(N) leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has…

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Pakistan is one of the countries that has Natural Coal but there is no planning to use it. European countries are now considering shifting back to coal utilization for creat power sources. Solving the Energy Crisis is a “Now or Never” for Pakistan: The Future is Thar! With a serious energy shortfall touching 5500 MW…

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Electricity shortfall reaching 7,000MW and uproar over the prolonged power outages growing among masses across the country, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in an emergency meeting, has warned top officials of the Ministry of Power to reduce the power load-shedding to two hours a day or face job dismissal. The PM took this tough stance after…

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The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) will consider projects worth around Rs1,800 billion, including the Basha Hydropower Project power generation component today (Saturday), it is learned reliably here. Most of the projects of the 22-point agenda are likely to be incorporated in the upcoming Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP), as the government has relaxed the…

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Prolonged power outages play on the nerves of Pakistanies’ residents Apart from prolonged electricity outages, load-shedding has started playing on the nerves of residents of Pakistan as summer is at its peak and life without electricity and gas can not be imagined. But authorities concerned seem to be in a deep slumber, as Islamabad Electric…

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National Electric Power Regulatory Authority on Thursday approved a massive rise of Rs7.91 per unit in the basic power tariff. The development comes days after the newly installed government jacked up the petroleum prices by Rs30 per liter. With the massive increase, a single unit of electricity has soared to Rs24.82 from Rs16.91. Nepra has…

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Although Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) is a profitable department and being a profitable department it is obligated to provide the best electricity system to its consumers but the irony of the fact remains that consumers have been suffering from poor electricity systems for years due to the non-availability of basic items like insulator conductors,…

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The shortfall between electricity demand and supply Sunday climbed to over 6,000MW, causing outages for over 8-12 hours in various parts of the country. The frequent and unannounced suspension in the power supply has made the lives of the common people difficult, thanks to the non-provision of fuel for power generation that has emerged as…

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Gwadar’s 300MW Coal Power Plant To End Energy Scarcity By 2023 The longstanding issue of Gwadar city due to growing energy scarcity would end by October 2023 after the completion of the 300 megawatts (MW) coal-fired power plant. The 300MW coal-fired Gwadar power plant would cater to the needs of some 150,000 local people by…

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