{"id":28727,"date":"2017-11-04T10:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T05:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28727"},"modified":"2017-11-04T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T05:49:30","slug":"govt-to-re-open-oil-plants-to-overcome-power-crisis-after-smog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28727","title":{"rendered":"Govt to re-open oil plants to overcome power crisis after smog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Nov 04 (TNS):<\/strong> The government has announced to re-open furnace-based oil power plants in light of severe power crisis in Punjab and Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Chashma Nuclear Power plant units 1 through 4, which were forced to close due to tripping, have restarted producing electricity after necessary technical and security protocols, said a press release by the National Transmission and Distribution Company.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) spokesman, the power plant was shut down due to a fault in the NTDC system and not due to smog. However, a press release on Friday by the NTDC had claimed the plant had tripped due to smog.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented severe dense smog is posing a serious challenge to the national transmission system and the Power Division, and the authorities are closely monitoring the situation, the press release said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the directions of Federal Government, the power sector has also closed all expensive furnace oil\/ diesel run power plants of a cumulative capacity of 4250MW,\u201d the press release stated.<\/p>\n<p>The NTDC has said that special teams and lines formations have been deputed by the authorities to meet any emergent situation due to the weather conditions .<\/p>\n<p>Patrolling of all high transmission lines has been increased by NTDC, the press release stated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Nov 04 (TNS): The government has announced to re-open furnace-based oil power plants in light of severe power crisis in Punjab and Balochistan. The Chashma Nuclear Power plant units 1 through 4, which were forced to close due to tripping, have restarted producing electricity after necessary technical and security protocols, said a press release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-28727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28729,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28727\/revisions\/28729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}