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Karot hydropower project’s unit one has started to run with a capacity of 180 megawatts (MW) on full load and is supplying energy to the national grid, The News learnt on Saturday. The energy produced from unit 1 would support the national grid in alleviating energy crises, CEO of Karot Power Company Limited Wang Minsheng said. He added that timely commissioning of Karot hydropower projects would ease power shortage across the country. He termed the start of unit 1 an important milestone for the project, informing that the unit 2…

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Independent power producers (IPPs) are setting up five power projects that would have an accumulative capacity to generate up to 3963 megawatts (MW) by this year, official sources told on Saturday. The projects include Thar Coal, RLNG, and hydel based power generation projects. They are likely to start commercial operation during the current year, the sources said. They said Private Power Infrastructure Board (PPIB) was providing facilitation to these IPPs projects being set up in different parts of the country. Sharing the details, they said the projects included 330 MW…

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The government has decided to give charge of the Water and Power Development Authority chairman to Mr Naveed Asghar (Wapda’s member finance), as a summary has been moved to the office of the prime minister and the cabinet division in this regard. “After resignation of retired Lt-Gen Muzammil Hussain, the ministry of water resources has moved a summary to the PM office for giving charge of the office of the chairman to member finance, Naveed Asghar. Hopefully, it will be approved by the cabinet in its meeting tentatively scheduled for…

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Despite surging oil and gas prices on the global market and the resultant rise in the import bill of two essential commodities in recent months, the two gas utilities are struggling to control their heavy losses against regulatory targets approved by the government. In the first two quarters of the current fiscal year (i.e. July-September and October-December), both gas utilities — Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) — couldn’t achieve unaccounted-for gas (UFG) reduction targets, according to latest performance report of the petroleum…

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The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday imposed a fine of Rs50 million on the National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) for its “inability to restore power supply in a timely manner” in the wake of the “total power system collapse” that occurred in January 2021. According to the regulator, it took approximately 20 hours to restore the system. In a press release, Nepra said that it had taken serious notice of the incident and constituted an inquiry committee to investigate the matter in light of its laws, rules…

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