Loadshedding to persist for two more years: PEPCO

ISLAMABAD—Despite untiring efforts of WAPDA to enhance power generation in country the dreaded loadshedding is most likely to continue for two more years,Spokesman and Director General Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) Tahir Basharat Cheema said Sunday.
Talking to newsmen he said the intensity of loadshedding would be much less next year as compared this year as PEPCO has been tasked to add 2200mw power within this year. As many as 15 Independent Power Producers (IPPs) are set to start their projects late this year.Till year 2010 they will be adding 2,868 mw power.
He said public sector has recently been asked to move in tandem with private sector aiming to bridge the power demand and supply gap as everything depends upon the public policy and the policy was then that only private sector could add more generation. In a major policy shift WAPDA has been tasked to come up with plan togenerate 6100 mw power through coal within next three years.

—Agencies