Karachi, - Karachi Electric Supply Company says it has started to receive improved supply of gas from Saturday morning and simultaneously it has reverted to normal power supply plan.
While industrial areas have totally been exempted from load shedding as before, additional half hour of load shedding also been removed from residential and commercial areas. Now KESC is again supplying nonstop electricity to all industrial zones of Karachi, a KESC press release said.
In medium loss residential and commercial areas, usual three spells of load shedding of one hour each have been restored while in high loss areas, duration of each spell is 1.5 hours as usual.
KESC says it has been receiving erratic gas supply from Sui Southern Gas Comapny SSGC all along outgoing winter season which at times compelled it utility to increase load shedding timings from normal when gas supply was brought down to low level. Currently, with gradual rise in mercury every passing day, need of electricity will grow which would increase gas requirement of KESC for meeting demand.
As summer intensifies, KESC would need its full allocated quota of 276 MMCFD. If gas supplies does notsupport the rise in demand, load shedding schedule would fluctuate again.
