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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.
Pakistan's Federal Constitutional Court has overturned Sindh High Court orders that allowed the Nai Gaj Dam contractor to claim price escalation beyond the original contract, directing completion under the original agreement and the 2021 MoU. The FCC also barred all further court intervention in the project's execution until the dam is finished.
Construction works inside Tarbela Dam's tunnels have disrupted Indus River water releases during the 2026 kharif season, leaving Sindh's paddy growers without enough irrigation water to transplant seedlings. The shortfall has triggered an interprovincial dispute, with Balochistan blaming Sindh for withholding due water shares from Guddu and Sukkur barrages.
Pakistani oilfield services firm GCIL has secured a five-year gas processing contract from OGDCL covering a Sindh production field. The deal represents multi-year revenue visibility for GCIL and locks in stable processing capacity for one of OGDCL's producing assets.
Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) has commenced commercial production from the Bobi Deep-1 well in Sindh, adding to the country's domestic hydrocarbon output and reinforcing Sindh's structural position as Pakistan's dominant onshore energy province.
The 8th PLUGIN 2026 engineering competition at QUEST Nawabshah, hosted by the IEEEP QUEST Student Branch, showcased student work directly aligned with Pakistan's power-sector talent gaps — from distributed generation control to smart-meter prototypes.
Sindh CM Murad Ali Shah has invited Chinese investors to back solar, industrial power-system, and renewable-energy projects across the province — pitching Karachi as a regional hub where industrial growth and decarbonised power must be financed together.
Hubco has acquired a 330MW wind farm portfolio in Jhimpir, Sindh — the largest private power deal of 2026, lifting its renewables share to 15%.