Federal Minister for Energy Sardar Awais Leghari has announced that the government will introduce a transformer-level load shedding mechanism under which power outages will depend on bill recovery from consumers connected to individual transformers.
Speaking in the National Assembly, the minister said the government currently maintains zero load shedding on around 11,500 electricity feeders across the country.
He said load shedding could not be completely eliminated because doing so would significantly increase financial losses in the power sector.
The energy minister linked electricity outages to non-payment of bills by consumers and said the government was now moving toward a more targeted system.
Leghari said the existing feeder based load shedding mechanism will gradually be replaced with a transformer-based system within the next year, after technical matters and implementation policies are finalized.
He stated that areas connected to transformers where consumers fail to pay electricity bills would face load shedding, while better recovery areas would receive improved electricity supply.
Pakistan’s power sector has long relied on feeder-based load management, where electricity outages are imposed according to recovery rates and line losses in specific areas.
The government has been under increasing pressure to reduce circular debt and improve recovery rates in the power sector. Both law-abiding and power pilferers have suffered from load-shedding since March.
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meaning those who pay bills regularly will be penalized when connected to same transformers as defaulters.
Called it . 😆 🤣 😂
Told you that govt was lying . Just 7 days ago electricity minister claimed it had ended .