Load Shedding during Dictatorships

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Re: Load Shedding during Dictatorships

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i am not sure if there is any point in interacting with people who have not heard of google:

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/1997/03May97.html

Unscheduled loadshedding to cover up power crisis

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LAHORE, April 26: With the atta crisis still persisting, Pakistan is
facing yet another serious crisis  the acute power shortage forcing WAPDA
to resort of unscheduled loadshedding to the extent of 1,700 megawatt (MW).

WAPDA s present capacity is reduced by about 40 per cent from 11,000 MW to 6,300 MW due to a big drop in hydel power following depletion of two
reservoirs at Mangla and Tarbela and repairs being undertaken at some of
the thermal power plants.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/1996/04Jl96.html

…Also, the present generation capacity of 13000 MW has been found to be
extremely insufficient to meet the demand on a year round basis, at
different times of the year, particularly during the period of low river
flows, when consumers are subjected to load-shedding.

The magnitude of this shortage is estimated to be around 2,300 MW, about 38 per cent of the computed demand, persisting for several months during peak load hours.

lol This ‘unscheduled’ load shedding lasted only a few weeks, and happened when the flour crisis took place due to the caretaker governement. There were also massive repair operations going on all over the country, especially at Tarbela which demanded them to shut down dynamos frequently. With Musharraf’s regime, load shedding has been ‘regular’ and ‘steady’ so far.