The site already is home to four operating nuclear plants. This unit will be called C-5 and it will replicate the design characteristics of K-2 and K A contract for its construction has been signed with China and extensive studies for site evaluation are currently underway. PAEC has intensified its activities to meet the nuclear electricity generation target of 8,MW by the year set through the government's Energy Security Plan formulated in Ample technical and engineering infrastructure is already in place to support both the existing and the under construction nuclear power plants.
Skilled manpower is being produced regularly by Indigenous institutes, imparting state of the art training and education in all relevant disciplines and at all levels, from technical trainings to academic programmes. These instruments are enough to successfully support the foreseeable future ambitions envisioned by PAEC for the future nuclear power programme of Pakistan. This way, load shedding will end. It is for the Govt.
Let them bring their own workers, it will speed up the work and they will be fully responsible for it. This will improve the economy and lessen public sufferings which are priorities. Our power travails apart from power theft and corruption lie in the poor planning. It has reliably been estimated that, we have over , MW of electricity generation potential lying in the high mountains. Hydroelectricity is the natural answer. But, we have not built a single hydroectric power station in the lasxt 42 years since Tarbela.
In comparison, India has built many, including on our own rivers. We must have Hydro Power as our backbone and Thermal Power should only be for firming up the capacity during lean water periods. But, for strange reason, Benazir Bhutto during her time in '93, very boastfully announced that she had made Rental Power as the corner stone of her Elecric Power Policy. Do we need any elaboration on who was behind that policy? Why is the 'poor' receptionist answering calls in person.
A recorded voice message would be effective plus other web based technologies Use the resources to solve to distribution and other issues. Perhaps, a lean methodology or the so called Toyota methodology will simplify the processes. Electric substations of all those localities with adeguate sace for installation of Solar panels may be converted to grid tie photovoltaic power stations to cover day time peak electric power demand of those localities bypassing most of the transmission network.
Sep 04, am. Building expensive power plants without adequate transmission lies is as stupid as building coal fire plants without upgrading the rail lines so that they can carry heavy coal for fuel. It is hard to imagine that the difference can be so stark. It must be that Pakistan not only has distribution problems, as the author suggests but also has inadequate production.
Demetri Isakof. In my humble opinion only two things. Mismanagement of electricity and allied resources. Secondly, Thickness of electrical wires, which they are now changing. Late but not forsaken. However, corruption, laziness of staff, non professionalism, no accountability, nor any processes or checks n balances in place to root out apathy from the electricity, gas and water boards, staff etc; is at the very root.
Why is a country of million and passing out hundreds of engineers every year, cannot think ahead, plan and execute. Why do we mention C. Why cannot we understand that independence means standing on our own two feet, that is a game changer not C.
We are nation without a rudder, without people who take responsibility, ownership. Other countries face similar problems, and they over come, we do not, because we cannot take responsibility, take on full ownership with consequences, so easy to pass the buck.
Sep 04, pm. Thank you for this article as it helps us non-engineering Pakistani better understand the complex nature of Pakistan's energy dilemma and also better understand why it is taking time to correct the grid system. It is also high time that Pakistani people themselves educate themselves and encourage energy efficient practices and techniques to help in this regard. Hussain Mujeeb. In oder to apply for Electricity or Sui or Wasa one must have to invest some thousand per service.
Because mostly people earns some rupees a month like house maid, workers etc and they can't efford and can't register themselve with Wapda, Wasa, SUI Gas, etc etc therefore fail to avail these opportunity.
By minimizing the Application fee, there would be a chance that more and more people get legalize themselves. Our power distribution capacity was 11, to 12, max on report of SBP sice we have added generation around 12, And distribution capacity is 22, wow. Why is the system, not answerable, why do consumers have to bear the brunt, why are there so many view points about what is wrong, why can there not be an independent finding of where the faults occur.
This is a challenge to make things work. Get rid of water and power ministry. It should be privatized and the government should be in the business of regulating these agencies. Heavy financial penalties should be imposed if the private sector does not meet the required quota. If there is no accountability people become lazy and irresponsible. That is human nature. Excellent analysis.
Iftikhar Khan. The new government should introduce and net metering ASAP, People will solve the power problem by themselves We have barely able to limped along with the previous industrial revolution, we should use it to our advantage and join the next industrial revolution soon. This should be done on an urgent basis. Rafiq Khan. Sep 05, am. Population growth is too fast. Let us not kid ourselves, as money money the previous governments have spent fixing or eliminating the energy crisis, we should have a surplus in energy, we should have updated our systems.
Ever seen the overhead web of tangled up electricity cables in the old parts of Lahore, Karachi and other big cities, its an open invitation to electricity theft, which thousands upon thousands of families do just that, they steal, which is another big part of the issue, but that's nothing new to anyone here.
Lets invest in new meters, underground wiring like I saw couple of years ago in Lahore with all that new construction going on by the new airport. Umair Ahmed. Sep 06, pm. Wasif There is no peak in day time for residential zones.
Why do you think there is a peak time set for every region and why does it always hover in between 5pm and 11pm.
Moreover, only solar is a very bad idea towards supplying reliable electricity and also enough to mitigate the overload. Not to mention expensive but a lot of land will need to be acquired. The transmission lines from the power plants do have enough capacity to transmit the fully supply capacity of the power plant. Its the existing grid that doesn't. Do you think its easy or cheap to upgrade the entire grid of a city, let alone a country? In Musharraf's time, Rs. They didn't get that amount then, now it should be at least double that figure.
Reader You haven't researched that's why your opinions are misinformed. Making these equipment in Pakistan will cost a lot more than importing them considering that quality isn't compromised. Not to mention the obvious that one of the companies making them have ever set foot in Pakistan nor awarded a license. And you also don't know that most of the distribution equipment is being manufactured locally. There is a clear inferiority in terms of quality standards but still, much of the equipment is from our own industries.
Shahzaib Obviously when you involve private sector with extremely biased policies, such growth can be expected. Its a similar scenario as was when Korean companies were given millions of dollars to uplift their country's economy. Though they experienced explosive growth even explosive is an understatement then and are still at it but the problems it created are not to gloss over either. Saeed Hydro power is over rated. There was a time that it was cheap and sustainable but now its not.
The extreme amount of money required to build one dam, to rehabilitate the people living around, to make way for new jobs for them and the destruction of marine life and dependent commercial activity is nothing to scoff at.
Perhaps you have not seen or heard what Dasu and Bhasha dams are going to do the area around. All will get submerged, the villages, the properties, everything gone.
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