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Government considers power outage prevention after massive breakdown

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By Web Desk Published January 25, 2023 6 Min Read
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A day after the massive breakdown hit the country, which left more than 220 million people without electricity and incurred tens of millions of dollars in industry losses, the federal cabinet directed the authorities concerned to devise a comprehensive strategy to prevent such a widespread blackout in the future.

The outage occurred on a winter’s day when temperatures are forecast to fall to around 4 degrees Celsius in Islamabad and 8 degrees Celsius in Karachi. According to details, the country experienced a major blackout when a fuel-conserving measure by the authorities went wrong.

During an interaction with local media on Monday, Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir said: “As an economic measure, we temporarily shut down our power generation systems [Sunday night].” He added that when the engineers tried to turn the systems back on, a “fluctuation in voltage” was observed, forcing the officials to shut down the power grid stations.

The cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif approved a nationwide public awareness drive on the conservation of power, water, gas and other resources to make the people develop such habits.

The meeting also called for the inclusion of the subject of best international practices on energy conservation in the educational curriculum.

It was said that energy conservation efforts at the public, private, domestic and commercial levels would help reduce the import bill of petroleum products which had increased remarkably during the last seven years.

The prime minister, expressing annoyance over the widespread power breakdown on Monday, said the inconvenience caused to the people was unacceptable and would not tolerate such happenings in the future.

PM calls for fixing responsibility.

Premier Shehbaz also called for fixing the responsibility of the power outage, which had caused difficulties for the masses and the business community. He was also instructed to identify the factors behind the power breakdown and take necessary measures to prevent its recurrence.

The cabinet meeting was told that a committee formed by the prime minister had started functioning, which would furnish a comprehensive report after deliberating over all the factors.

On behalf of my government, I would like to express my sincere regrets for the inconvenience our citizens suffered due to power outage yesterday. On my orders an inquiry is underway to determine reasons of the power failure. Responsibility will be fixed.

— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) January 24, 2023

The meeting participants said that all major 1112 grid stations were also restored by 0500 hours on Tuesday morning to ensure power supply to the consumers.

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb gave a detailed briefing to the cabinet on National Awareness and Communication Strategy for Energy Conservation, under which a long-term awareness drive would be launched.

She told the meeting that, before the drive, the information ministry carried out the first comprehensive survey to seek public opinion on energy conservation. Then, considering the public behaviour, the ministry prepared an awareness drive to develop people’s habits, lifestyle and bahaviour for energy conservation.

The federal cabinet appreciated and approved the information ministry’s awareness drive and instructed for its early launch, asking other ministries to extend their support.

The prime minister directed taking the caretaker governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into confidence on the energy conservation plans to ensure their effective implementation.

‘Shortage’ to persist

In a press conference in Islamabad earlier, Dastgir said that the entire power system was fully restored at 5:14 am across the country but noted that despite the restoration, there would be a shortage of electricity for the next two days as the nuclear power plants required 48-72 hours to start supplying electricity to the system.

Similarly, the energy minister said the coal power plants required around 48 hours for synchronization. But, he said yesterday that each unit of Sahiwal and Engro Coal Power plant has also started work.

He added that there would be an electricity shortage for the next 48 hours, and limited power load-shedding would be carried out.

However, he made it clear that industrial consumers would be exempted from the power load-shedding as per the “policy of the incumbent government.”

‘Power supply fully restored in Karachi’

The K-Electric claimed that after a pause of over 24 hours, electricity had been fully restored in Karachi, including residential, commercial and industrial zones in the afternoon.

In a statement, the city’s only power distribution company said that a wide part of the country’s power network was impacted due to a reported sudden problem in the National Grid network, which triggered a cascading effect on Monday morning.

“KE teams immediately began restoration efforts after confirming that its network was safe, channeling electricity to the citywide network of 71 grids. The priority was to restore power supply to strategic installations such as pumping stations, hospitals and the international airport etc.,” the statement read.

KE CEO Moonis Alvi said, “The untiring efforts of our teams were pivotal in managing the situation. Though we were undertaking planned maintenance activities on some of our generation plants to optimize them ahead of the summer, we immediately brought them online to support the city in this time of need.”

He thanked the customers for their patience and said that KE networks were back to normal. The CEO also said that the ground teams remain active in resolving localized faults. (APP)

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