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Heavy monsoon rains triggered a power outage lasting over 24 hours in Hyderabad's SITE industrial area, bringing 360 factories to a standstill. The Hyderabad SITE Association has urged the Sindh government to fix drainage and road infrastructure before next monsoon season.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered a comprehensive technical audit of billing systems across all power distribution companies, directing the Power Division to set clear performance targets and eliminate electricity theft. Five DISCOs — IESCO, LESCO, GEPCO, FESCO, and MEPCO — achieved 100 per cent billing recovery in fiscal year 2025-26.
Pakistan's government is seeking an additional Rs. 1.20 per unit fuel cost adjustment in August electricity bills to recover Rs. 15.7 billion for electricity consumed in June. The FCA claim is driven by the non-availability of Qatar's contracted LNG, which forced costlier spot-market purchases, while nationwide electricity demand fell 3.3 per cent year-on-year.
K-Electric's industrial feeders consumed a record 6.08 billion units of electricity in FY26, surpassing the previous high of 5.84 billion units set in FY22 and marking a 20 percent year-on-year surge. The milestone was driven largely by the B3 category of cement, steel, and textile producers, with KE also adding 349 new industrial connections and 168 MW of fresh demand to its Karachi grid.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pledged on Friday that securing Chinese nationals working on Pakistan's power and infrastructure projects is the government's top priority. The vow follows deadly attacks on Chinese workers at sites including the Dasu Hydropower Project, where ongoing delays threaten thousands of megawatts of generation capacity Pakistan urgently needs to reduce load shedding.
Power outages of up to 10 hours a day are degrading mobile tower performance and disrupting internet services across Pakistan, the National Assembly's IT committee was told on Tuesday. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has formally escalated the electricity supply problem to NEPRA and the relevant distribution companies.
The federal government will install 18 megawatts of rooftop solar with battery storage on 499 government buildings across Gilgit-Baltistan by December 2026, as part of a 100MW solar project announced by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The broader 82MW utility-scale component, pending ECNEC approval, is projected to benefit approximately 1.3 million people and eliminate load shedding in the region.
Pakistan's total installed electricity generation capacity is on track to reach 44,626 MW by end-June 2026 after 2,800 MW of new additions during financial year 2025-26. Solar net metering alone accounts for 2,633 MW of those additions — nearly 94 percent — marking a clear shift toward distributed rooftop solar as the country's primary source of new generation.
Multiple production units at the Gadoon Amazai Industrial Estate in Swabi have shut down as industrialists cite chronic PESCO power outages, gas load shedding, and high transportation costs. The president of the Swabi Chamber of Commerce says his own steel mill has been idle for eighteen months and he may relocate operations abroad if conditions do not improve.
Cummins' new HSK78 2MW lean-burn gas generator targets Pakistani manufacturers, hospitals, and data centres facing chronic load shedding — promising full single-step load acceptance and stable operation on the variable-quality gas Pakistani sites actually get.
LESCO has begun 4-hour daily load shedding on Lahore urban feeders, citing a 1,200MW supply shortfall as peak summer demand approaches.