The electricity shortfall in Pakistan has been recorded at 7,100 megawatts(MW) as the country is producing over 14,400MW including 11,500MW from IPPsagainst 21,500MW demand.
According to sources in the Power Division, hydel power plants weregenerating 900MW while Tarbela Dam is only generating 600MW electricitylink T3 and T4 projects are underconstruction at the dam site and no water storage is being processed forpower generation.
Terbela Dam is empty for the last two months and similarly Mangla Dam isalso almost having no water storage.
The public thermal power plants capacity if 4,000MW but multiple publicpower are closed due to technical faults and shortage of fuel, and only2,000MW electricity link is beingproduced.
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The private power plants are closed due to unavailability of the furnaceoil, coal and LNG.
Sources of power division claimed that the technical fault in thedistribution companies are wasting the 2,000MW causing Rs3 billion loss tothe animal exchequer.
