Three new power generation plants would start contributing 600mw power in the system within a period of next 10 days - ensuring significant solace to power consumers, Managing Director Pakistan Electric Power Company Tahir Basharat Cheema said on Monday. Talking to private TV channel, he said new power generation plants Atlas, Orient and Technoone have already started test generation nowadays.
Only two months July and August are difficult and after that things would start improving fast. The menace of load shedding would be exterminated completely by December 2009. He urged power consumers to co-operate and ensure minimised usage of ACs to cope with power deficit emerged due to a fault in Mangla power generation plant last night.
Regarding fault in Mangla dam, he said, teams of Wapda and Pepco are busy rectifying the fault. A deficit of 1100mw has been added in the total power shortage due to the closure of Mangla dam power plants. The worst affected areas are including Gujranwala, Gujrat, Wazirabad, Sialkot, and Mirpur, he said.
Rest of the country would be less effected due to a fault in Mangla power generation plants. Efforts are underway to arrange 650mw additional power from Tarbela and by enhancing the efficiency of gas power plants to obviate the effects of Mangla plant closure. The power deficit has touched 3600mw due to fault in Mangla, he said while responding to a question.