The country’s strained power system continues to fall short of meeting the leap in demand as the mercury rises skyward.
According to details, the insufficient fuel supply has been taking a heavy toll on power generation whereas the attempts to restore it have not yielded enough electricity to meet the demands. The electricity shortfall has increased to 6,598 megawatts against the demand of over 26,700 megawatts.
The Power Division sources said the total production of electricity on Saturday was 20,540MW and the demand was 26,700MW all across the country. They said the production of hydroelectric power was 8,000MW, government thermal power plants 570 W and production of private sector power plants remained 7,300MW.
The sources added that the production of electricity from wind power plants stood at 1,200MW, the production of solar power plants 120 MW and bagasse 150MW while the production of nuclear power plants was 3,200MW.
Meanwhile, the electricity demand of the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) exceeded 5,400MW due to which the worst unannounced loadshedding gripped most parts of the city.
Lesco is facing a power shortfall of 800MW as the demand has crossed 5,400MW while the supply is 4,600MW. Lesco issued a two-hour loadshedding schedule in the city due to high shortfall but contrary to the schedule, hours-long loadshedding is being done in several parts of the city.
The power outages took place as transformers and other infrastructure developed faults.
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Consumers in many parts of the country facing 8 to 10 hours of loadshedding. The situation was particularly worse in localities with high losses.
