K-Electric on Saturday has increased the duration of electricity load shedding up to 11 hours a day in Karachi.
As per the details, announced and unannounced prolonged power outages continued to trouble people in the metropolis.
The duration of power load-shedding in high-loss areas has been increased up to 11 hours, while the areas exempted from load-shedding were also experiencing power outages up to six hours a day.
Sources said that the soaring temperature has taken the power demand above 3300 MW in the port city while the gap between demand and supply has reached 700 MW.
Earlier on May 22, unannounced and prolonged power outages had marred  Karachiites’ lives and livelihoods across swathes of the port city in the sweltering weather on Saturday as a technical breakdown suffered in Bin Qasim power station had left the power supply disrupted.
As a plant at Bin Qasim billowed heavy smoke out of their gas insulating system due to a mechanical fault, many areas in Karachi had suffered up to nine hours of unanticipated power cuts.
