Maximum of the day. “The situation was worse because the Sui gas company had already stopped the supply of industrial units and was going through a system of load shedding itself. Therefore captive units were shut off due to the non-availability of the gas. The IPP who were operating on the furnace could not get the regular supply of furnace and they did not bother to keep enough stock for the contingent therefore stop shutting. And then naturally the blame game started from the water shortage in dams to fuel oil transportation problems, violence in kind, and maintenance activity in some independent power producers.
Now it is officially declared that in last year not a single megawatt was added. We have seen hundreds of seminars, conferences, and events on energy issues in Pakistan. The money wasted there if utilized then at least we can add a few hundred MW of power. The fact is that Pakistan is sustaining an acute shortage of power. Its demand is increasing and production is declining due to the plants. And no solution is in sight. The projects which are in pipeline will not come in the line before 2009. And even the magnitude is such that it will not be able to fulfill the demands. Of today. WAPDA is in favor of large dams and thinks that the delay in the construction of large dams was the basic reason for the shortage of power.
The objective should be the utilization of dish tidied energy resources. It is imperative that renewable energy resources should be explored but still, con rental thermal and coal-fired power plants should be established.