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Fuel shortage sparks loadshedding fears in Lahore, Faisalabad

June 21, 2020 03:55 PM


Petrol crisis in many Punjab cities have given room to fears to take roots that a serious electricity shortfall will hit Lahore and Faisalabad due to non-supply of fuel to thermal powerhouses, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Sunday, quoting its sources.

The TV channel reported that Independent Power Producers (IPPs) need enough supply of fuel to run their day-to-day affairs while National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC) has also run out of fuel to operate thermal powerhouses.

NTDC has been continuously alerting the Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) about the fuel crisis for the last four days and informed about possible electricity loadshedding as fuel supply disrupted.

Loadshedding in Lahore and Faisalabad will become inevitable, according to an NTDC letter directing all IPPs to keep stock for the next fortnight.

Earlier, Petroleum Division completed an inquiry into the petrol shortage crisis and found nine oil companies involved in creating an ‘artificial scarcity of the fuel’.



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