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- (October 27, 2026): Federal Energy Minister Owais Leghari says that overall recovery of electricity bills has exceeded 97 percent, distribut.
- Addressing the National Energy Summit at Nast University, the Energy Minister said that as a result of negotiations with IPPs, the people wi.
- Owais Leghari said that for the first time in the history of Pakistan, an integrated system plan was prepared and approved by Nepra, a power.
(October 27, 2026): Federal Energy Minister Owais Leghari says that overall recovery of electricity bills has exceeded 97 percent, distribution companies of Punjab have achieved the target of 100 percent recovery.
Addressing the National Energy Summit at Nast University, the Energy Minister said that as a result of negotiations with IPPs, the people will save 3.5 trillion rupees in 15 years, besides reducing the profit of government power plants, the efficiency of discos has improved by more than 260 billion rupees, nepotism has been eliminated and professional boards have been appointed in companies.
He further said that the special committee will soon make recommendations to reduce the peak demand, last year 76% of the electricity generated on the grid was obtained from local resources.
Regarding the revolving debt, Owais Leghari said that its increase has been completely stopped for the last 2 years, a historical reduction of 780 billion rupees has been made in the revolving debt, which has decreased from 2400 billion to about 1680 billion rupees.
