WAPDA is supplying electricity at the rate of four rupees per unit, Chairman WAPDA Sajjad Ghani
Next year, 11,000 MW of electricity will come into the system, so the price of electricity will become cheaper
ISLAMABAD ( Web News )
Chairman WAPDA Lieutenant General Retired Sajjad Ghani has said that WAPDA has no special role in the electricity crisis, it neither transmits nor distributes electricity. WAPDA is accepting all the allegations with a lot of innocence, WAPDA has nothing to do with today’s crisis. In an interview with private TV, he said that the work of WAPDA at present is only to build big dams, install big projects and run them and generate electricity from them. The situation in the power sector is really grim but the new one will not sink. Currently, the largest hydropower projects in the history of the country are being built, WAPDA’s power generation capacity is currently 9,500 MW, which we are going to more than double in the next five years, that is, 11,000 MW more. If it comes into the system, the cost of electricity will become cheaper and 11 million acre-feet of water will be available for agriculture.
WAPDA is supplying electricity at the cost of four rupees per unit even in the most expensive conditions of the time, the reason for the expensive units is some transmission and distribution problems, some inefficiency, some theft and some IP. Dependence on pies. Pakistan should depend on hydropower, but unfortunately at present hydropower is meeting 25% of the requirements, the main reason is that we have
Wasted forty years, the last big dam was Tarbela which was built in the seventies and now Diamar, Bhasha and Mohmand dams are being built. Construction of Kalabagh Dam in the eighties and Diamer Bhasha Dam in the nineties
He said that even today Kalabagh Dam is the most efficient and buildable dam that can be built even today. He said that Mohmand Dam will be enough for Peshawar region. Chairman WAPDA said that today It is easier to get the political characters on the same page regarding the construction of the dam. In the recent floods, a large part of Sindh was submerged. It should have been collected, that is, there should have been some dams that could stop this flood water. While talking about the possibility of revision of agreements with IPPs, he said that every agreement in the world should be revised. There is scope, no contract is watertight, provided both parties agree that the circumstances require that we revise. If in any such case this revision is not possible by the IPPs, then it would be my opinion and suggestion that the government of Pakistan should purchase the expensive IPPs itself in the next few years.
Chairman WAPDA said that public private partnership can be formed to buy these IPPs.
In response to another question, he said that WAPDA does not give any money to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in the form of net hydel profit on water resources, they have to be paid by the Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA). It gives money, we give it to the province, at the moment the dues of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on CPPA are about 34 billion rupees.
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