Power Resource of Pakistan

Electricity is the key to a modern country as it is a basic need for industrial growth ln Pakistan, electricity is produced by:
(a) thermal plants which burn oil or gas,
(b) hydroelectric plants, and
(c) very small amounts of nuclear power
The use of electricity is increasing rapidly in Pakistan. In 1971, the electricity generated was 5 532 gigawatt hours (gwh). In the ten years from 1991 to 2001, the annual consumption increased from 31 500 gwh to 48 500 gwh - a rise of well over 50 per cent.
Thermal power plants
Burning oil or gas turns water in the, huge boilers into steam. This passes
under great pressure into turbines, whih are a kind of windmill turbines turn the .dynamos which produce electricity.
Hydel power plants
In a hydroelectric station, water is stored behind huge dams in . the wet season, and allowed to run out through huge pipes, where it turns the turbines. Pakistan's main hydroelectric dams are at Warsak, Tarbela and Mangla
Nuclear power plants
In a nuclear station, the water is heated by nuclear power to turn the turbines, which then produce electricity.
The only nuclear plant at the moment is KANUPP, at Hawkesbay, near Karachi.


The government is busy taking electric cables to many villages by the year 2000, 70 000 villages had electricity supplies.
 But some villages are far too distant and would use so little power that it is not worth the great cost of electrifying
them at present. Some remote places have small hydroelectric plants, where there
is a fall in the river. Some have small power stations driven by diesel engines, which will supply
enough electricity for a small village. A few have experimental solar electricity stations. They do not produce
 much power and, of course, will not run at night. Some of them are used to provide electricity for pumps in tube wells.