…and there will be light.
Never before have there been such frequent power outages in winter in Karachi as there were this last season. While growing demand due to a greater population and increased business activity are major factors leading to the energy crisis in the city, another reason can be attributed to lack of long term planning by the power providers.
But things might change for the better if the words of CEO KESC, S Muhammad Amjad, and PEPCO MD Baseer Munawwar Ahmed hold any weight. While the former claims Karachi will see no more power outages by 2012, the latter estimates that the power crisis will be over by 2010.
The presentation also brought to light the conflict between KESC and WAPDA. Amjad pointed out that the government is not allowing KESC to use the Gharo-Badin corridor windmills, because the power is to be transferred to WAPDA while Baseer maintained that KESC will have to arrange for its own power generation to meet the growing demand in Karachi. He also pointed out that there was no agreement between WAPDA and KESC for power purchase. He said that KESC cannot pay its outstanding amount, which runs into the billions of rupees.
Mr. Baseer also revealed some telling facts in his presentation at a seminar organized by ABB (Pvt) Limited. He said that billboards in the city consume 20 MWs per day, which is sufficient to light 100 villages and that electricity theft is high in DHA, where four air conditioners are used in a house but the bill is not paid.
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when Liaqut Jatoi was inducted as minister,he had claimed that karachi would loadshedding free by 2007..
you mean to say.. someone actually pointed out DHA???!!
my God! people are getting balls in this country :P
"KESC will have to arrange for its own power generation to meet the growing demand in Karachi".
KESC was planning to install a 300MW plant at West Wharf in the late 80s but didn’t after federal govt rejected the proposal. Now they are not allowing KESC to purchase power from the private wind farms. Why do they complain when Karachites shout "discrimination" !!!
since the new karachi metblogs, no. of comments have decreased drastically!!!
I used to write as Alam, Reality_check, Doctor, and Eddie O’reily and what not, and still have to register those aliases. You see, I am such a lazy bum.
[...] to give a rapid solution to the power-hunger of the country have been futile. There are always some figures and years available, predicting upon when things would get fixed, but the future has to tell [...]
[...] to give a rapid solution to the power-hunger of the country have been futile. There are always some figures and years available, predicting upon when things would get fixed, but the future has to tell [...]