ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Ministry of Water and Power on Monday clarified the news item appeared in a section of press regarding reaching of power shortfall to the tune of 7,000 megawatts, saying at no point of time, the shortfall reached to such level.
In a statement, the Spokesman of the Ministry said that further the calculation for building supply and demand scenario in the said story is also on wrong parameters.
The Spokesman said that the power shortfall never crossed 5,000MW that too for a negligible short time as the demand driven generation immediately took to fill in the gap which is the normal technical setting in power demand and supply chain.
The soaring of demand and drawl by the Distribution companies make the generation adjustment as per the existing power system.
The calculation made to build figure like 7,000MW by deducting the losses to the tune of 7 percent alone and not considering the DISCOS suppressed demand minus high losses areas and constraints depicts that the news has missed a major point.
Overall system demand also show the demand of the high losses areas and where there are constraints.
The DISCOS have different schedule for the high losses areas and therefore their demand side does not hold ground in the overall demand.
It for any calculation T&D losses are to be deducted, the demand of the high losses and constraint areas also need to be deducted for fair judgment of the scenario.
For that reason the figures calculated on formula is totally one sided and depicting otherwise negative impression.
It may be added that for general public consumption the number or figure calculation may be avoided and focus should be on schedule or un-schedule load management.
On Sunday, however the power system responded quite efficiently and distributed upto a maximum of 15720 MW of electricity and managed schedule load-shedding. Not a single megawatt of forced load-shedding was carried in the entire country despite soaring of the temperature to 49 degrees.
