QUETTA: Approximately 28 districts of Balochistan province, where electricity demand is 1,650 megawatts against the supply of only 170 megawatts, are still sans electricity supply, as per reports.
The huge demand and supply gap is resulting in up to 22 hours of loadshedding in many districts of the province. In Quetta – the provincial capital – there is a 12-hour-long power loadshedding. QESCO officials said that power supply from the national grid has not yet fully restored.
After loud explosions inside the plant, 600 megawatt power supply from Muzaffargarh Thermal Power Station was suspended on Saturday night. Sources in National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC) said that this chain reaction or somewhat domino effect of ‘power failure’ was actually set into motion after Balochistan’s sprawling Uch-1 and Uch-2 Power Stations tripped offline.
