Power shortfall reaches 5722 MW

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Power shortfall reaches 5722 MW

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The power shortfall reached 722 megawatts due to shortage of oil, gas and water.

13 July,2011 12:53 pm

According to PEPCO authorities, the current electricity demand is 18338 megawatts while production remains at 12616 megawatts.On the other hand, unannounced gas loadshedding continues despite the provision of 160 million square feet gas by the Sui Southern Gas Company.Meanwhile, electric supply could not be resumed in some areas which were affected in during the firing incidents.According to PESCO spokesman, 8 to 9 hours loadshedding continues in Peshawar and 9 to 10 hours loadshedding is being done in the rural areas, whereas, situation is worse than that.Moreover, the citizens protested against loadshedding in Bahawalnagar at Minchanabad Chowk and blocked the road.