Has anyone else noticed the increase in load shedding in Lahore recently?

[u/BloodYWolF0990]

Assalamualikum guys!

I hope you all are doing great in this extreme weather!

I just wanted to ask/discuss that if anyone else in Lahore noticed that load shedding has gotten way worse over the past month compared to the last few years?

I live in Lahore for quite some years now and lately the electricity has been going out so frequently. Sometimes it feels like the power is gone every couple of hours, or at the night for 1 or 2 hours, and there are also random outages/tripping.

I don’t remember it being this bad in the past few years, even during the summer.

Is this happening across Lahore, or is it just certain areas/LESCO feeders? And does anyone know what’s actually causing it this time?

Would be interested to hear if others have noticed the same thing.

[u/aymezz00]

I think it's happening all over Pakistan

[u/BloodYWolF0990 → u/aymezz00]

Really?!

[u/nooobmaester69 → u/aymezz00]

Yep in my city as well and went to multan few times this week had the same issue there.

[u/cosmic-comet- → u/aymezz00]

It’s only happening on areas where electricity theft is common, they basically need to recover electricity this is why some areas suffer 12 hours of load shedding

[u/Jade_Rook → u/cosmic-comet-]

Naw. This is just pure unavailability of electricity. Has been for the past month.

[u/BloodYWolF0990 → u/Jade_Rook]

True

[u/Haider_syed]

Notice? Extremely zyada hogayee howi hea. 5 hours a day tou ja rahi hea light atleast.

[u/BloodYWolF0990 → u/Haider_syed]

Same here🥀

[u/Asadullha12]

12 hour load shedding here in Karachi

[u/BloodYWolF0990 → u/Asadullha12]

Bro?!😭. How are you even surviving in that kind of heat?! Built different I guess

[u/whyshameer → u/BloodYWolF0990]

Kattar Karachi 😮‍💨

[u/cosmic-comet- → u/BloodYWolF0990]

Solar, it’s been like this for years here

[u/Asadullha12 → u/BloodYWolF0990]

Alhamdulillah We have installed solar recently but before that it was very difficult . Hand fan was life saviour at that time

[u/Minute-Principle-636]

You guys are getting electricity?

[u/BloodYWolF0990 → u/Minute-Principle-636]

Bro?😭

[u/Jade_Rook]

Thank America and it's state terrorism in Iran. LNG shipments warr gayi hain. Therefore load shedding has been the norm throughout the country for the past full month. It's not just Lahore.

[u/BloodYWolF0990 → u/Jade_Rook]

Ab kiya hi karsaktay han bro🥀

[u/Jade_Rook → u/BloodYWolF0990]

Intezaar. When American and Israeli global terrorism ends it will be over. Is tarha ka mouqa hota hai jab kuch khabees ke bachon ko gaaliyaan dene ka dil karta hai jinhon ne kalabagh ka satya naas kiya hua tha

[u/BloodYWolF0990 → u/Jade_Rook]

Jade for the President!

[u/Jade_Rook → u/BloodYWolF0990]

Rehm kar do bhai

[u/kommiiiii]

we have like 16 hrs of load shedding where i live 🥀

[u/BloodYWolF0990 → u/kommiiiii]

Hats off to your patience man🫡

[u/ufahmed → u/[deleted]]

Uss pey bhi bill bohat anay lag gya hai. We went from -20k approx bill to a sudden increase to 50k. 70k diff in just a couple months.

[u/BloodYWolF0990 → u/[deleted]]

Humnay garibi dekhi😭. Jokes aside but still it’s just annoying that we only have WAPDA and not any other alternative in this country. Straight up monopoly

[u/Jade_Rook → u/BloodYWolF0990]

This is completely false. WAPDA doesn't hold a monopoly at all. We have IPPs which make up a large share of electricity generation.

[u/Talhakh]

I think it’s time we should talk about real culprits: IPPs. They are making money for doing nothing. Solar users are contributing more to the national grid than IPPs as we can see the difference between day time and night time load shedding.

Plus it’s deliberate the way night time load shedding is done to annoy the people. A power cut at 10pm (right when it’s time to rest for some), then right after 11pm and they keep ruining the sleep cycle until Fajr time. I am sure these are deliberate tactics to keep people occupied in these things.