Although the whole country is confronting the power crisis thanks to the short-sighted and ill-conceived policies of eight-year long tyrannical regime and especially the policies of banker-turned politician former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz-led government, the people of Karachi have been the most miserable lot of the country, as they did not find any respite from the multiple crises being faced by them that range from power crises and water shortages to unprecedented increase in street crimes especially robberies, cell phone snatching and various mafias ruling the city.  
The menace of unending power outages and unannounced loadshedding continue to haunt the citizens of Karachi. With the rise in mercury-level, the power demand of the city has also shot up to 2,400 MW to 2,500 MW, but the available supply with the power utility is just 2,100 MW to 2,200 MW, thus it faces 200 MW to 300 MW shortfall to meet the power demand of the city.  
To bridge the shortfall, the utility carries out loadshedding of two-hour duration twice in the day. Although, KESC spokesperson Sultan Hassan, says the utility is carrying out load-management of just two-hour duration twice in a day, resident complained that the outages ranges from two-and-half hours to four hours.  
Residents also complained that the KESC customer center did not entertained their complaints regarding utility’s services. 
Presently, Wapda supplies 500 MW electricity to the KESC. Some days ago, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani announced that the power supply to Karachi would be enhanced to 1,000 MW. But the announcement remained mere announcement and no steps have been taken to materialise the announcement.        
KESC spokesperson Sultan Hassan said Wapda has not taken any step as yet to supply the announced electricity to the KESC.  
KESC rely on WAPDA and IPPS supply to meet the demand of the city, besides its own generation plants.      
The utility obtained some 1100 MW from six units of it main generating plant, Bin Qasim Power Plant. Although the generation capacity of the Bin Qasim Plant is higher, but is does not generate power of it full capacity as the unity of the plant have passed its operational life. 
The utility receives supply of 150 MW from its Korangi Thermal Power Plant, and it is should be mentioned here that two units of the plant had already ‘retired’ and the existing unit have also completed their operational life.  
The Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) supply some 70 MW to 80 MW to KESC. 
The plant is in sorrowful state, as power supply from it once again tripped on Sunday just after four days of coming into operation.
The KANUPP restarted its operation on June 18 after it had tripped on May 19 earlier this year due to loss of transmission lines connecting it to the KESC Baldia grid.
A spokesperson for the KANUPP said the nuclear power plant had tripped on Sunday (June 22) at 1:30 pm due to some technical fault wrecking the KESC’s transmission lines. He said that he was not sure when the KANUPP would start its operations again.
The operation of KANUPP is still suspended, which pushes up the shortfall of the electricity, causing multiple spells of power load shedding in various parts of the city.
KESC also acquiring electorate from small IPPs (Independent Power Producers) including DHA, Tappal. 
When asked about the measures being taken by the power utility to enhance its generation capacity, Sultan Hassan told Weekly Pulse that the installation of gas-fired power plant is under way and it would commission by the end of this year and provide some 220MW electricity to the power-starved KESC. The utility is also in process of negotiations with a private party for installation of a power plant in Korangi, which would be acquired by the KESC on rental basis.
Meanwhile, the citizens are resorting to protest demonstrations in different parts of the city against prolonged power outage and mid night loadshedding.
Due to the continued loadshedding, people are losing temper and resorting violent protest.  In recent days, many vehicle of KESC were burnt by violent power-protestors and in some areas the offices of the utility were also came under attacks.
Last week, angry power protesters attacked KESC customer centre in Rafah-e-Aam Society and smashed furniture and tortured the employees.  Similarly, the residents of Lines Area also beaten up KESC employees.
Meanwhile, reports whirling in media say that new foreign investors are set to take over the Karachi Electric Supply Company.  The reports said that a stable group is planning to acquire the utility from the Saudi group.
The reports have alighted some rays of hope for the miserable power consumers of the city that the new investors would hopefully be able to put the utility’s affairs on the right track after taking it over and get the Karachiites rid of the continued outages and loadshedding.