.The
energy conference is over and various measures have been announced
to meet the energy shortage. These measures are not new and
have been tried to enforce several times.Although the load
shedding was active on Sundays and national holidays therefore
the reason for load shedding is something else than these
cosmetic measures..The Government writ is so low and traders
and industrialist lobby is so strong that their will have
priority. Our simple question is that what is being done to
meet the shortage of 5000MW power which will grow to 10000
MW once current projects will matured. It means we are heading
for energy crisis for the decades to cme.
So
far no serious efforts are made to install and upgrade the
new power plants and increase the generation capacity. And
neither this secret is being revealed that why the furnace
oil supply is not being arranged regularly. Furnace power
plants are not being utilized at full capacity.
No
mention is made to thousand of UPS and 1-10 KW chinese and
local made generators which are converted on gas and being
used by upper middle class families to meet load shedding
cruch.
These
small generators are not fuel effeciant and of low quality
resulting higher maintenance cost. If KESC provide small 1
MW generators on gas locally at 11 KV and connect to grid
then the practicing of UPS and domestic generators can be
avoided and will bring saving in energy cost.
Small
solar cells and hydro electric should be subsidized and arranged
with complete tax free package , Banks should facilitate small
loans for such machines on low interest rates.
For
long term power projects at least 5 units of 1000 MW based
on coal fired boilers and turbines are essential for long
term power requirements. Such investment should be made in
government sector with the help of ADB and World Bank
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