PESHAWAR, Oct 20: Peshawar Electric Supply Corporation (Pesco) has unveiled 9 to 12-hour daily loadshedding in NWFP in line with a new scheduled to meet the gap between supply and demand.

Speaking at a press conference, Jehanzeb Khan, acting Pesco chief executive, announced the new schedule, saying that 9-hour loadshedding will be observed in urban while in rural areas it will be for 12 hours.

He attributed growing consumption, decline in hydropower generation and line losses as the major factors behind the current crisis.

The Pesco, he explained, was facing 1065MW shortfall, which, he said, would be met through the new loadshedding schedule across the province.

He asked the consumers to conserve energy during the peak hours so that period of loadshedding could be reduced. The new loadshedding schedule would remain in force till November 1, 2008, he concluded

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