Furnace oil units closure trigger outages: KESC

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has informed the federal government’s committee that the closure of furnace oil units was one of the major reasons of unprecedented loadshedding in Karachi.

The KESC briefed the federal government’s committee, led by Secretary of Power and Water Ismail Qureshi who visited the Bin Qasim power plant of KESC on Monday to discuss the issue of power crisis in Karachi and power generation by the KESC.

The KESC also informed the team that the short supply of gas, due to maintenance of gas fields, had also caused shortfall in the production of electricity, sources told The Nation.

The federal government had arrived in Karachi to look into power crisis amid reports of unprecedented and unscheduled hours-long loadshedding in the mega city of Pakistan.

The committee was briefed about the power generation by the KESC and causes of loadshedding. The agenda for the meeting was about the low capacity of power generation by the KESC that had made the lives of citizens miserable and spoiled business.