Electricity outage intensifies as power demand escalates to 13800 MW

Electricity outage intensifies as power demand escalates to 13800 MW
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Summary The power production has restricted to only 9700 megawatts.

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Load shedding continued to persist in the country as the urban areas are facing power cut of seven hours while the rural areas have hit by 10 hours electricity outage, Dunya News reported on Sunday.

National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) has reported that the power demand has escalated to 13800 megawatts and the production has restricted to only 9700 megawatts.

The new schedule of power outage, six hours load shedding for urban areas and eight hours load shedding to rural areas, was made by keeping in view the ongoing crisis of electricity however, due to electricity shortfall the decided duration has been increased.
 

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