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NEPRA Takes Notice of Increased Load Shedding

Islamabad (June 08, 2018): National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has taken notice of increased load shedding witnessed recently throughout the various parts of the country.

According to a press release issued on Friday, NEPRA issued instruction to National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) to prepare a plan to end system over loading.

The notification also said that NEPRA had, in the past three years, allowed NTDC to carry out an investment of Rs96.63 billion to improve on their system, but that not much improvement has been seen.NEPRA has taken notice of the overloading of NTDC grids previously too, NEPRA instructed NTDC to solve the problem of over loading in November 2017 the notification stated.

NEPRA warned If NTDC did not solve the problem, situation could worsen in July, August,

Consistent power outages were reported in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Quetta on Thursday night.

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