Country faces hours-long power outages as shortfall reaches 7787MW
Last updated on: 03 July,2022 08:11 pm
With power shortfall surging to 7,787 megawatts, people are dealing with hours-long loadshedding.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – With power shortfall surging to 7,787 megawatts, people are dealing with hours-long loadshedding across the country.
According to sources, the total demand for electricity in the country is 29,000MW and the total power generation in the country is 21,213MW while 5,430MW electricity is being generated from water, 1,705MW from government thermal plants and 10,241MW from private sector power plants.
Wind power plants are generating 1,629MW electricity while solar power plants are generating 113MW electricity.
The bagasse-based power plants are generating 120MW of electricity while the nuclear fuel-based power plants are generating 2,275 MW of electricity.
Meanwhile, the unannounced electricity loadshedding in urban areas is up to 14 hours while 18 hours-long loadshedding is being carried out in rural parts of the country due to power shortfall.