Awais Leghari announces end to power load-shedding

Islamabad: Minister for Power Awais Leghari has announced an end to power load-shedding.  

In his video message, he mentioned that the country received LNG yesterday and that electricity production from hydropower has now reached six thousand megawatts.

The Minister for Power recalled that the people started experiencing power outages about fifteen days ago. He stated that, at the time, it was clarified during a press conference that the load-shedding was neither due to any negligence on our part nor caused by a non-functional system or insufficient production capacity.

He said the reason for the load-shedding was gas shortage, which occurred because LNG supplies were not arriving due to the US-Iran war.

Awais Leghari said if we had produced electricity using diesel or furnace oil to completely eliminate load-shedding, the electricity would have become very expensive, emphasizing this would have put a burden on consumers.  

The Minister for Power also clarified that our generation capacity is not forty-six thousand megawatts, but thirty-two thousand megawatts.

He said they will make every effort to protect the consumers from any raise in the prices of electricity.