KARACHI: With the mercury consecutively touching almost 40 degrees Celsius in Karachi since the past few days, the city’s residents found themselves in added misery as over 12-hours long unannounced, power outages continued unabated.
Among areas , most affected in the port city were Baldia Town, Lyari, Aurangzeb Town, Korangi, Landhi, Surjani Town, PIB Colony, Malir and Shah Faisal Colony.
The city’s power utility, Karachi Electric (KE), admitted to carrying out power outages in all areas, regardless of whether they’re exempted from the load shedding schedule.
Citing, reasons for power outages, KE observed that shortage of furnace oil, resulted in a shortfall in electricity production, and has compelled the company to rely on cheap electricity.
KE observed that shortage of furnace oil, resulted in a shortfall in electricity production, and has compelled the company to rely on cheap electricity
Owing to an increased demand of electricity in the city, systems have been badly affected, the power utility maintained. Technical faults including tripping of electricity feeders have become regular occurrences.
The power utility, late on Wednesday night, wrote on twitter that violent mobs had damaged their grid station and offices.
“This endangers our teams and makes our job more difficult”, the tweet read, calling for citizens to bear with them.
In another tweet, KE posted a statement citing reasons for having to “manage the load”.
“With the onset of extreme hot and humid weather in Karachi, our peak demand has crossed 3450 MW. Furnace oil is not available in the market to the level required resulting in up to 800 mt shortfalls daily. This has been in the news and the Government is taking action by allowing imports”, read the statement.
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(With Input from INP)
