Power shortfall 6,119MW

LAHORE - Water and Power Development Authority has started squeezing the demand for reducing electricity frequency to put aside 700MW besides some of the IPPs managed fuel to run 5 units out of 24 closed units, sources told The Nation on Monday.
Sources said that the electricity shortfall on Monday recorded as 5,948MW after hitting the record high-level of 7,075MW owing to the forced shutdown of more than 24 units of power generation plants on Friday.
According to data of electricity distribution companies (DISCOs), the shortfall recorded at 6,119MW as 8,529MW was supplied to these distribution companies against their demand of 14,648MW. The break up shows that Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) recorded 971MW of shortage against the demand of 2,910MW 1,939MW, which was given 971MW followed by Multan Electric Supply Company (MEPCO) 1063MW short supply against the demand of 2513MW which was supplied 1450MW.
The Faisalabad electric supply company (FESCO) was the third with the shortfall of 882MW, as the company in need of 1,985MW and 1,103MW was given followed by Gujranwala Electric Supply Company (GEPCO), which recorded 771MW shortfall against the required demand of 1,632MW, however, 861MW was supplied. Whereas Haiderabad Electric Company (HESCO) Peshawar Electric Company (PESCO), Quetta Electric Company (QESCO) and Islamabad Electric Company (IESCO) registered 650, 673, 517 and 592MW shortfall against the demand of 1,921, 1,343, 1,047 and 1,297 simultaneously with the respective demand of 1,271, 670, 530 and 592MW of electricity.
Almost all the public power generation companies, which already were running under capacity stayed shutdown for want of fuel.
They said that the only 362MW AES Lalpir and 365MW AES Pak-Gen Limited could manage to get fuel in addition to the country’s largest IPP with a capacity of 1,600MW, Kot Addu Power Company (KAPCO) could get fuel to start its one unit. However, others plants who already were running at half of their capacity, including 120MW Japan, 586 Uch Power Limited, kept on running at half of their capacity. 117MW Southern Electric Power Company (Sepcol), whereas, on the other hand, the WAPDA own generation units stayed cut off the system.
The total generation capacity of Genco-III power plants, which is 1,530MW at present, consists of TPS Muzafargarh, SPS Faisalabad, GTPS Faisalabad, NGPS Multan and GTPS Shahdara. They stopped contributing their share in generation system with fuel as main problems besides GENCO-I, Jamshoro Power Company Limited, with the maximum load of 671MW. Similarly, GENCO-II, with maximum load of 1,222MW has also stopped contributing.