LAHORE: The electricity load shedding has intensified across major cities of Pakistan as the shortfall reached 5000MW.
According to sources, the major cities including Lahore are facing up to 3 to 4 hours of unscheduled load shedding and up to 8 hours in rural areas despite low power demand in winters. Sources said that the total power generated in country is 14500 whereas the shortfall reached 5000MW.
Sources revealed that the shortfall will further drop tomorrow as the demand was less today because of the holiday. Despite the unscheduled loadsheding earlier the power division confessed to overbilling consumers, changing their slabs and damaged meters.
The initial report on the NEPRA investigation report revealed concerning findings, indicating that over 4.5 million consumers received bills exceeding 31 days. –Agencies
