1. If Pakistan has more than 45,000 MW installed capacity, why does loadshedding begin when demand crosses 16,500-18,000MW?
2. With 4,000 MW coal capacity (Sahiwal, Port Qasim, Hub), what is the current utilisation rate in those plants?
3. Before the war, how much of our generation was running on LNG?
4. Is the Matiari-Lahore 4,000MW HVDC line operating at 100 per cent utilisation?
5. How much economic output, in rupees per day, is lost due to peak-hour loadshedding compared to the incremental cost of running furnace-oil plants?
6. What percentage of the more than Rs2 trillion circular debt is due to theft, non-recovery and capacity payments?
7. Why is electricity priced in a way that reduces consumption, when higher consumption would lower per-unit costs?
8. If the system can ‘meet full demand’, why is electricity being withheld by design instead of being supplied and priced transparently?
9. How much of Pakistan’s installed capacity is actually dispatchable at peak hours?
10. Does Pakistan lack megawatts — or management?
The writer is an Islamabad-based columnist.
