No loadshedding during sehr and iftar times: KE

K-Electric CEO Moonis Abdullah Alvi has announced that the power utility will “continue to provide maximum relief” from loadshedding to the residential and commercial customers during sehr and iftar times.

Understanding that people of Karachi were faced with unprecedented circumstances due to the COVID-19 threat and the current lockdown, the KE was making all efforts to “provide reliable power supply despite threats to operational sustainability from ballooning government dues”, said a KE press release issued on Thursday.

“The KE aims to utilise maximum available generation to manage the shortfall against peak summer demand and load management if required would be carried out with maximum relief to domestic and commercial consumers during sehr and iftar,” it reads.

The KE CEO said that on behalf of his team, he “extends warmest wishes of the holy month of Ramazan to his fellow Muslims. During this holy month when everyone will be showing generosity of spirit and offering Ibada’at (worship), I and my team will be working round the clock on the frontlines to ensure reliable supply of power. We have also made significant investments in our networks over the past one year in preparation for the incoming summer season, especially in the holy month of Ramazan, including system upgrades as well as increased power offtake from renewable IPPs”.

To augment its power supply, the KE had announced an investment of $650 million in a state-of-the-art RLNG based power plant, added the 50 MW Gharo Solar Power Plant as an IPP and had progressed its over $450 million TP-1000 project with six new grid stations and 26 power transformers already energised, the statement said.

The power utility had also made investments in the distribution network that had seen an addition of almost 500 new Pole-mounted Transformers (PMTs) in different parts of the city and upgradation of 8,000 PMTs to Aerial Bundled Cables, it added.