Islamabad, Pakistan – A day after the country experienced the most severe power outage it has seen in months, the energy minister of Pakistan has announced that power has been fully restored across the country. On Tuesday, Khurram Dastgir Khan assured reporters that all 1,112 grid stations will be restored over the next twenty-four hours.
Because coal and nuclear power facilities would need more time to stabilize, Khan stated in a tweet that there will be sporadic power disruptions in a variety of locations over the next several days. It is expected that it will take between forty-eight and seventy-two hours to restart around 6,600 MW of coal facilities and 3,500 MW of nuclear plants. He said that until these plants are operational, there would be very little load management available, with the exception of industrial users. Early on Monday morning, Pakistan’s national grid failed, knocking out power to homes, places of business, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions across the nation of 220 million people. Overnight, the power in the majority of the nation was brought back on, although people in the country’s major cities, such as Karachi and Lahore, continued to suffer power outages. It was the second significant power failure to hit Pakistan in the past four months, and it was the first blackout to affect the whole nation since January 2021.
Khan stated that the authorities have not been able to determine the precise cause of the breakdown. He also mentioned that a team consisting of three people has been established to investigate the most recent power failure. “We need to investigate whether there was an external influence such as an assault on the internet, despite the fact that this is less likely,” he stated. In addition, the minister dispelled rumors that there was not enough fuel in the country to keep the power plants operating.
