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Wafi Energy Pakistan Limited has inaugurated a 7.4 million-litre motor gasoline storage tank in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, expanding the province's local fuel buffer. The facility is expected to reduce petrol supply disruptions across KP and improve fuel access for generator-dependent households and businesses during load-shedding hours.
Power Minister Awais Leghari has ordered immediate disciplinary proceedings against underperforming officers across all Pakistani DISCOs after a six-month audit of the 118 helpline system found tens of thousands of consumer complaints resolved late or left unattended. PESCO and SEPCO have already suspended identified officers, with all remaining DISCOs directed to follow suit.
Pakistan's Federal Minister for Power has ordered disciplinary action against more than 100 SDOs and XENs identified as chronic underperformers across the country's electricity distribution companies. Suspensions have already begun at PESCO in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and SEPCO in interior Sindh, with officers at all other government-managed DISCOs also placed on notice.
PEDO's Rs. 40 million mini solar grid station at Khar Bazaar in Bajaur has missed its 2024 completion deadline by nearly two years and remains entirely non-operational. A funding shortfall for the final 1-kilometre transmission line, community resistance over land access, and site drainage problems caused by nearby bypass construction are all blocking commissioning.
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.