power production

Shift to solar, economic stress compound challenges; experts warn of energy strain

Power production will remain sub-optimal due to low forex reserves along with outages

Fall comes as industrial, residential consumers switch to cheaper options

Believes other sectors will take delivery of unconsumed imported gas

SNGPL warns power division that because of additional gas, pipelines could burst

Committee deliberates issues of high tariff, capacity charges and heat rates

The plant was shut down for inspection on Jan 5

Hydroelectric power plants make largest contribution at 2,564GWh

It comes after marked fall in LNG imports, poor water management

Rises 10% to 13,751 gigawatt hours with addition coming from new plants

It will help collect billions from consumers who may become project shareholders

However, production with the help of imported LNG has not proved cheap

Generation from nuclear, coal and RLNG plants increases, hydel’s share in energy mix drops

Will run electricity plants on cheaper sources like coal and RLNG

CM announces launching of 100MW power plant in May

G-B ministers says first phase of census in the region starts from March 15

Project is expected to be completed after the end of govt’s tenure

50MW project worth $76.93 million would supply power to K-Electric

Will beat demand by a margin of around 7,000MW, claims power secretary

WAPDA delivers 4.7b units of cheap electricity to national grid

Allocation of over Rs45 billion to NTDC in the recent budget should immediately be used for upgrading infrastructure