LAHORE  - Electricity shortfall on Saturday touched around 6500MW. The generation is hovering around 10000MW and the demand has crossed 16000MW all over the country. Power plants have no fuel and major share of the generation in energy basket is coming from hydel sources. The Lesco’s ...

ISLAMABAD - Caretaker Federal Minister for Water and Power Dr Mussadiq Malik on Saturday said caretaker government was taking urgent measures to overcome electricity loadshedding across the country.The caretaker prime minister, he said, had called a meeting of the ministers of finance, petroleum ...

ISLAMABAD - The cash-strapped government has further injected Rs10billion into the power sector to offset ongoing energy shortfall that has hit hard domestic and commercial electricity consumers alike. According to a top official of the Finance Ministry, a sum of Rs10billion has been released to ...

ISLAMABAD - Taking serious notice of the fall in revenue collection in nine months (July 2012 to March 2013), Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Ansar Javed on Monday directed that remedial strategies be made to ensure collection of the assigned targets for the last quarter ending June 30, ...

LAHORE – The electricity shortfall is hovering around 5000MW with worst load shedding in rural and urban areas of the country.Hydel generation is about 2500MW due to least outflow of water from major dams and the rest 7000MW is being contributed by the independent power plants (IPPs) and ...

LAHORE – Amid Wapda’s claim shortfall of mere 3,000MW in national grid, long duration loadshedding is continuing across the country.Wapda spokesman said on Tuesday said that the generation stood on 9,200MW against the national wide demand of 12,200MW and that there was 3,000MW gap ...

QUETTA - A main gas pipeline of 18-inch diameter was exploded in Naseerabad district, some 320 kilometres southeast of Quetta, in early hours of Sunday.Police sources said unidentified miscreants had fitted explosives beneath an 18-inch diameter gas pipeline in Rabi area of Naseerabad which ...

The power crises in the country is getting worse day by day as demand of electricity is 11545, production is 7245 and shortfall is approximately 4300 megawatt.According to Media Reports, as summers have started in the country, Ministry of Water and Power says that overall demand of the electricity ...

HAFIZABAD - Federal Board of Revenue failed to achieve revenue collection target of nine months of the financial year targeted at Rs 1785 billion and could only get Rs 1210 billion, a shortfall of 32 percent. FBR sources said that originally the FBR was to collect taxes to the tune of Rs 2381 ...

Power shortfall is gaining momentum across Punjab including Lahore as the power shortfall rose to 3832 MW in the country Tuesday.According to Power Management Cell report, the energy production remained 13790 MW while the consumption was 17022 MW across the country. Hence the shortfall rose to ...

ISLAMABAD - Hydel power generation has reduced due to lesser water inflows at Mangla and Tarbela dams as compared to last year, increasing the power shortfall to 6400MW. As per official data available during the peak hours energy shortfall was recorded at 6400MW and in coming days the situation ...

The shortfall of electricity production reached to 5500 megawatt in the country resulting in the load shedding of almost 10 hours in the urban areas and 18 hours in rural areas of the country, sources said on Monday.The sources said that the shortfall occurred due to disputes on payments between ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Only after two weeks of non-stop electricity supply to the consumers, Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) has once again started 8-10 hours loadshedding in all parts of the country The national grid, which had faced a shortfall of 2,280MW on Sunday, faced a shortfall ...

ISLAMABAD - Power shortfall may break all previous records in the very start of October by reaching the figure of 7,500 megawatt, thus adding 30 per cent more to the existing worst loadshedding, TheNation reliably learnt through the sources of Ministry of Water and Power. At present the power ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - Electricity shortfall has surged to 8,500MW, increasing loadshedding across the country. According to the Water and Power Ministry Tuesday, the electricity generation stood 10,000MW against the demand of 18,500MW, sparking more loadshedding across the country. Urban areas are ...

Electricity shortfall has increased to 4390 MW, prompting increase in load shedding. According to Media Reports, mercury has also regained its rising trend, but even pestering is the unannounced, prolonged load shedding in the rural and urban areas alike. PEPCO sources said that power production is ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The electricity shortfall in the country on Monday went up to 3,495 megawatt (MW) as the total power generation was recorded as 13,014 MW against the demand of 16,509 MW during the last 24 hours. According to a briefing on daily power generation and load-management ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) The electricity shortfall in the country on Sunday again soared to 2,796 MW from 1,908 MW as the total power generation was recorded as 13,419 MW against the demand of 16,215 MW during the last 24 hours. The hydel generation stood at 6,664 MW, WAPDA thermal 1,496 MW, IPPs 5,137 MW ...

ISLAMABAD (INP) Due to gap in demand and production, the power shortfall has again mounted to 3,904 megawatts. Increase in unscheduled loadshedding has further added to hardships of the countrymen besides adversely hurting the business activities. According to Pakistan Electric Power Company ...

Electricity shortfall has climbed to 3300 MW as no new addition could be made to the national grid and as a result the energy crisis has worsened and load shedding increased across the country. According to PEPCO spokesman, the total power generation stands at 13,782 MW against the demand of 16,997 ...

Electricity shortfall in the country has reached up to 4059 MW due to which masses are facing a lot of difficulties. According to PEPCO spokesperson, currently power demand in the country is 18677 MW while power production is 14618 MW, out of which 650 MW has been provided to Karachi. He further ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The electricity shortfall in the country on Saturday dropped to 4,034 from 4,653 MW as the total power generation was recorded as 14,536 MW against the demand of 18,570 MW during the last 24 houRs According to a briefing on daily power generation and load-management position, the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The electricity shortfall in the national grid has reached 5,166 megawatt with 10 to 16 hours loadshedding in major cities and town. The rural areas are under the grip of above 18-hour outages. According to the Pakistan Electric Power Company, electricity generation is ...

The electricity shortfall has jumped up to 6,700 MW as the Jamshoro transmission line tripped on Monday disrupting supply of power to the consumers. According to Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO), the transmission line tripped due to the excessive moisture and it would be restored soon. On ...

According to Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO), the country is generating 13,252 megawatt of electricity while the current demand is 18,721 megawatt so the country is facing a power deficit of 5,469 megawatt. The dispute between the administration and workers of the Karachi Electric Supply ...

Due to increase in production of electricity in the country through hydel and independent power projects (IPPs) and slight improvement in weather conditions in upper parts of the country, gap between supply and demand has come down. According to Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) on ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The electricity shortfall on Friday downed at 1733MW, thanks to the change in weather and comparatively good generation from all the sources. The overall electricity situation was being described better across the country. The sources said that big cities of Punjab were ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - With the ongoing generation of 12, 175 MW of power from all available resources against the need of 18, 160 MW, Pakistan is facing the short fall of 5985 MW of power at present, official sources revealed. Quoting the Pakistan Electric Power Company, WAPDA sources told The Nation ...

The electricity shortfall reached to 6,000 megawatt, increasing load shedding timings across the country up to 18 hours daily. A private television while quoting sources reported that the power demand in the country is 18,100 mw while the production is just 12,175 mw. Owing to huge difference ...

ISLAMABAD - What to say about the villages and remote areas when the main cities of country are facing up to 18 hours loadshedding thus pushing country into total darkness and closure of industries as political government have not taken steps to resolve the issue. The political leadership at the ...