ISLAMABAD: The unscheduled loadshedding in the country has further intensified as the electricity shortfall has increased to 5,500MW.
According to National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC), the electricity demand is 21,000 MW whereas the production is 15,500 MW. Besides this, urban areas are facing eight hours and rural areas 12 hours of power cut in holy month of Ramazan.
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Sources said that power demand is gradually increasing due to warm weather whereas water outflow has not grown in big dams as a result of which hydroelectric production is not being raised.
