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Daily Times
July 12, 2021
Amid sizzling temperature of above 40 degree centigrade coupled with long hours, unannounced power outages have started adversely affecting people and industrial production owing to a substantial energy shortfall of about 600 megawatt in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa gripped by severe heat wave since the start of this month.
As sun is spewing out severe heat, people in Peshawar’s peripheries, southern districts including Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan besides merged areas were witnessing the brunt of
load-shedding for about 10-14 hours daily, especially on high loss feeders forcing consumers to install solar systems, purchase generators and UPS besides water pools to protect their loved ones from the scorching heat.
Khyber Pakthunkhwa Energy and Power Department has proposed three mega hydropower projects (HPPs) costing Rs177.244 billion for annual development programme of the upcoming budget 2021-22 to address the problem of energy shortfall. These hydropower projects include construction of 96 MW Batakundi costing Rs40 billion, 188MW Naran costing Rs70 billion in Manshera district and