Former Commerce Minister Gohar Ijaz has said that the government is buying power at Rs 750 per unit from a power plant due to IPPs agreements.
IPPs contracts become a bottleneck, it has been revealed that one power plant is buying electricity at Rs 750 per unit.
Gohar Ejaz says that I raised my voice once morest forty families by sharing the data to save the country from them, the government is buying electricity from coal power plants at an average of 200 rupees per unit, from solar and wind power plants at 50 per unit. It is being bought in excess.
He said that all these power plants are running at less than 20% capacity, 1.95 trillion rupees have been paid to these IPPs, the outstanding amount of 160 billion rupees is being confirmed by the government. 150 billion rupees, whose load factor is less than 15 percent.
The former commerce minister shared the capacity payments data on social media
The former commerce minister said that the government is paying 140 billion rupees to a power plant whose load factor is 15 percent, and paying 120 billion rupees to a power plant that is running at 17 percent load factor. 100 billion is being paid to the plant running on percentage load.