Expat Heather

What’s Up with the Electricity?

Posted in electricity, energy crisis, load shedding, pakistan by expatheather on October 13, 2008

Yikes, there’s something going on with electricity in Lahore today. I woke up sweating with the power went from 4-5am, then it was only on for an hour and went off again from 6-7:22am. The rest of the day has been like this:

7:22 – 8:00 POWER
8:00-9:00 NO POWER
9:00 – 10:00 POWER
10:00 – 11:00 NO POWER
11:00-12:00 POWER
12:00-1:00 NO POWER
1:00-3:00 POWER (Wow for two whole hours!)
3:00 – 4:00 NO POWER
4:00-5:00 POWER
5:00-6:00 NO POWER
6:00 POWER….

Is it going go on and off every other hour? Has Pakistan just run out of money for energy? There was barely any loadshedding during Ramadan, so this seems like very poor planning.