Pakistan recorded the highest generation of electricity in the country’s history at 25,516MW on Monday.
According to an update shared by the Ministry of Energy, power generation broke all previous records on August 21. On August 21 at 24hrs, the highest-ever power generation of 25,516MW was recorded.
The highest power generation of 25516 MW recorded on 21st Aug, 2023 at 2400 hrs breaking the record of 24600 MW recorded on 18th Aug.
Moreover, highest ever energy in a single day was also recorded on 21st Aug i.e 558.35 GWH, previous record was 555.33 GWH on 8th July,2021.— Ministry of Energy (@MoWP15) August 22, 2023
This surpassed the previously recorded highest power generation of 24,600MW on August 18. Moreover, the highest energy ever was also recorded on August 21 of 558.35GWH breaking the previous record of 555.33GWH on July 8.
The ministry said that the overall load-shedding hours and shortfall have been better this year when compared with the previous year. The areas of maximum recovery did not face more than two hours of load shedding. With 5,000MW already added to the system this year, the generation capacity is now breaking its previous records.
The record high generation is of little relief to the general public with electricity consumers facing rising bills. The latest increase in the national
