DHA City | Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: In a first, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday awarded DHA City, located on M-9 motorway, two parallel licences for electricity distribution and supplier of last resort (SoLR) for a period of 21 years. This is the first of its kind move under which a privately owned entity — DHA Energy Supply Company (Desco) — got licences to have both responsibilities of distribution of electricity and the supplier of last resort under the revised Nepra regime for competitive trading bilateral contract market (CTBCM) other than legacy utility distributors and SoLRs like ex-Wapda distribution companies and K-Electric. Initially, Desco’s jurisdiction for the distribution licence would be in DHA City Karachi (DHACK), located about 56 kilometres from Karachi city in district Malir. In its application, Desco reported that there was no infrastructure that may connect it to the national grid or KE network and the only source of supply available nearby was that of the Lucky Cement Limited w...