Director General Pepco, Muhammad Khalid has said some 2800MW electricity is being produced through hydel system which will be increased to 6500MW by June this year. "Line losses have been reduced to 14.5 percent due to better policies of PEPCO," he said while talking to the media at the Wapda auditorium, here on Tuesday.
He further said that there is no forced closure of electricity loadshedding in the country. The total shortfall of electricity was over 2000MW and it is likely to increase further with rise in mercury, he said. However, he expressed the hope that there would be less loadshedding this year as compared to the last year.
The Director General Pepco that the duration of loadshedding was different in every city. He said that some 400MW to 500MW would be saved in the head of two-weekly holidays and closure of business centres at 8pm. He said while rejecting the impression of power cuts of up to 14 to 18 hours said that four to six hours of loadshedding would be carried out in urban areas while eight to ten hours in rural areas. Conversely, only two to five hours of power cuts to be carried out in the provincial capital of Punjab.