Fearing a worsening of power shortage in coming months with a sharp rise in demand, the Ministry of Water and Power has asked the government to return the gas, earlier diverted to fertiliser producers, to the Guddu power plant.
“The gas, which has been provided to fertiliser manufacturing units, should immediately be returned for running the existing as well as newly installed 747-megawatt power plant,” the ministry said in a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on May 16.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had inaugurated the newly-installed Guddu power plant in the third week of April.
