Tired of energy crisis?: Generate your own electricity, Zardari advises industrialists

President says the practice will give an idea to industrialists as to how energy is produced.


Web Desk January 10, 2013
Zardari says govt can provide industrialists with oil and power plants and that they can try generating electricity themselves. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

KARACHI: When industrialists protested against the dearth of electric supply to industries, President Asif Ali Zardari gave them advise which left them mum – “generate your own electricity”, Express News quoted him saying on Thursday.

A delegation of industrialists met with the president in Karachi to discuss the ongoing energy crisis and complained about not getting electricity and gas supply, which they said had halted production.

President Zardari proposed that the government can provide industrialists with oil and power plants and that they can try generating electricity themselves. He said this way “industrialists will get an idea of how energy is produced.”

Surprised at the advice given to them, the delegation responded to Zardari’s advice with silence.

The president further said that there was, indeed, an energy crisis in the country, however, the government was trying its best to overcome it.

COMMENTS (33)

theorist | 11 years ago | Reply

Just Stats: If each of 18M consumers of PEPCO and KESC put up 1KW (USD 1200 one time) of grid connected solar system, they will assist the grid by adding 35billion Units of electricity annually. By adding this much energy, oil based power plants can be shutdown. Same energy is produced by running RFO plants at an annual cost of PKR 600billions. Circular debts is evaporated. Need 18000MW panels manufacturing capacity to meet our demand thus created. China manufacturing capacity is 30000MW a year and sitting idle due to demand collapse following recession in Europe. Government needs to implement it microgeneration policy given in Renewable Policy 2006. NEPRA act to be modified to allow such projects without generation licensing regime designed for mega projects. USD 1200 is 1/6 of annual income of six person family.

Rehan | 11 years ago | Reply

I know a few people who are doing just that. Bahria town housing estates do that as well and there is no load shedding for them.

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