Four RPPs to be operational by year-end: Pepco

Four Rental Power Plants (RPPs) with about 600 MW power generation capacity would be operational by the year-end. Director General Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco), Mohammad Khalid, told Busiiness Recorder here on Friday. It would be followed by addition of another 1200 MW by coming March, hence the total power generation capacity would reach 1800 MW by then, he said.
It would help bring down the demand and supply gap and the Pepco would only have to announce marginal load-shedding in the months of May and June next year, he added. Khalid said no load-shedding is being conducted anywhere in the country, both on domestic and commercial fronts, by Pepco at present. When asked about slow progress on execution of RPPs, Khalid said that the investors' are reviving their confidence gradually and this phenomenon would ultimately be overcome soon.