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Karachi, Pakistan in large-scale power

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, the outbreak of the electricity supply dispute, 6 occurred on the morning of large-scale power, originally made on the face of food shortages and higher prices of 13 million people more panic.

Local time at 8:00 on the 6th, Pakistan State Energy Agency cut off the supply of electricity to Karachi, resulting in more than 13 million population of Karachi in power, including industrial, commercial, ports, medical facilities, places all power in the “shock” status . State Energy Agency spokesman said that the supply is cut off because the power companies have not repay the arrears of accounts. Hydropower Development Bureau under the agency officials said, from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other foreign joint venture enterprises in Karachi power company has accumulated arrears of nearly 35 billion rupees (about 550 million US dollars) electricity, but ignoring the continuous development of hydropower continuous reminder accounts. Stop supply is a last resort move.

Electricity has become a major ills in Pakistan. To address operator confusion, poor facilities, such as theft, a serious problem, the Government of Pakistan to implement reforms, the introduction of privatization. 2005 restructuring of the company to set up in Karachi is a product of reform, but the problem could not be effectively addressed. Karachi has been complaining about the power company and the electricity sector units owed electricity, so that enterprises operating difficulties. Power company said that the negotiations will be resumed as soon as possible a comprehensive supply As for the incident reflected the lack of electricity, operating difficulties, at least five years to ease. (Huang Huan)

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6 Responses to “Karachi, Pakistan in large-scale power”

Tessa Van Rompaey
Posted: May 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am

Hello,
My name is Tessa and I live in Karachi. For ym science project, I need to know a lot about the use of Hydropower in Karachi. I’d like to know if anyone here has something to say to help me out. About how much, in percentage, is Hydropwer actually used in Karachi?
Thank you very much, those willing to help me.
Greetings, Tessa.

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Tessa Van Rompaey
Posted: May 19th, 2008 at 6:36 am

Thank you very much for publishing my question and thank you for the responses.

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Samantha
Posted: May 20th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

hello, my name is samantha. I too had a science project similar to this when i was in 8th grade. But I am a sophomor in high school right now. I live in Australia. I guess you’re from Karachi. How is is there anyway? By the way, i researched your question and found that there is almost zero percent of hydropower being used in Karachi at the moment.

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Samantha
Posted: May 21st, 2008 at 1:19 pm

Tessa, i need some help and you are the only person who I could think of to talk to, reply by 5:00 tommorow, please.

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Samantha
Posted: May 24th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

don’t worry tessa everything is alright now, sorry to bother you
have a good summer
bye

P.S you should know that you shouldn’t reply to me if you ever see this site as for I will no longer be able to right
Please have a good life.

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Tessa
Posted: May 29th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

Oh my god… I’m so sorry… My friend told me you sent something. I should have replied sooner…
Don’t do anything crazy…
Someone I know told me something similar… and then killed himself…

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