Month: January 2023

The government has planned to instal over 155,700 Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) meters in all of the power distribution companies (DISCOs) by June aimed at reducing power sector losses, enhance quality of billing and recoveries besides addressing consumers complaints of over billing. Official sources told APP here that AMI system would help identify areas of power outage and power losses. The system would be installed at all high losses feeders and transformers in DISCOs, he said. They said AMI was a proven technology in utilities worldwide to improve technical and…

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After the gas crisis, the Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) distributors have announced a four-day strike to protest against the inflated prices, ARY News reported on Tuesday. The LPG distributors announced to observe a strike from January 28 to 31 after the prices of Liquified Petroleum Gas hiked up to Rs300 per kilogram. The distributors announced to halt the supplies due to insufficient stocks of LPG to meet the demand. The chairman of the LPG Distributors’ Association Irfan Khokhar addressed a press conference in Karachi today. He said that the gas…

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Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) on Tuesday strongly rejected speculations about the shortage of diesel and petrol in the country. Sufficient stocks of petrol and diesel are available across the country,” OGRA spokesperson Imran Ghaznavi clarified in a press statement, after scores of people rushed to pumps and panic-bought the commodity. He said the country had sufficient petrol and diesel stocks for meeting the needs of 18 and 37 days, respectively. “Furthermore, ships carrying 101,000 (tonnes) petrol is at berth/outer anchorage,” the spokesperson added. Ghaznavi said the local refineries…

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Most residents of the city spent a whole night without electricity after enduring a day-long outage on Monday as the fragile transmission and distribution system of the K-Electric remained affected due to a nationwide power breakdown early in the morning. Electricity in almost every part of the city, except a few sensitive installations, played hide-and-seek on Monday night and Tuesday making life of millions of people miserable. Besides, the power outage caused an acute shortage of water as pumping stations did not function for want of electricity. People also faced…

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