Power producing province to get priority: govt

ISLAMABAD: None other than the World Bank has severely opposed the government’s proposal to grant first-usage right to the province producing electricity, arguing the policy does not make sense for an integrated power system, reveal official documents available with The News.

“The bank also expressed its opinion that the policy will most likely be economically inefficient since it will preclude the trade of power across the provinces,” the documents state. The government is planning to introduce amendments in the power policy 2002 and to this effect, the committee, headed by Secretary Water and Power Imtiaz Kazi and comprising four secretaries of the provinces, has finalised the amendments, including this critical proposal that based on the location of the power plant, the electricity requirements of the province or local area be given priority. In case the said amendment is approved by the CCI, the electricity crisis will touch a new high in the Punjab, which generates only 30 percent electricity but consumes 60 percent. Surprisingly, however, the Punjab representative in the committee did not oppose the move when the committee finalised this recommendation. While the Punjab maintained a mystifying silence over the proposed amendment, the World Bank has opposed the said amendment.

It is pertinent to mention that under the 18th Amendment, there is a clause in the Constitution under which the gas deficit has become the highest in the Punjab as compared to other provinces. Under the said clause, the province producing gas has the fist right to consume it and the remainder is to be passed on to such federating unit where gas is not abundantly available. This is the main reason that the Punjab is facing a massive gas deficit leading to a massive surge in unemployment as many industrial units have virtually closed down in the wake of non-availability of gas. If the CCI approves the recommended proposal, the Punjab will be exposed to ever more power outages.

Under another proposal that has also been finalised by the committee, the Water Use Charge (WUC) will also be increased to Rs0.425 per unit without annual indexation. The WUC will be reviewed every five years in order to determine whether an increase in the WUC is necessary. In this case, the World Bank has said that the every five years, the WUC review must not be left open ended. Farooq Energy Company has opposed this proposal saying that an increase in WUC is a pass-through item and would lead to higher average hydro tariff.

The committee has also decided that carbon credits earned through clean energy projects from the UN will be utilised for project maintenance and welfare of affected people on an equal basis. The World Bank said that the recommendation should be consistent with the mechanism to share carbon revenues as explained in the government policy for the development of renewable energy 2006.

Courts to check abuse of power by institutions: CJ

KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Saturday said that the people have trusted the judiciary and urged the judicial officers and lawyers to not let them down.

“Judicial officers and lawyers try their utmost to provide justice to the people as our existence is dependent on the dispensation of justice. If people are disappointed with the institution of the judiciary too, then everyone knows what the consequences will be,” he observed while addressing the oath-taking ceremony of the newly elected body of the Karachi Bar Association here at the Sindh High Court lawn.

“The destiny of our institution is in our own hands. If we cooperate with each other and ensure that the very purpose for which we have been created is fulfilled we stand a good chance of being vindicated in the eyes of the public,” he observed.

In his speech, the chief justice also highlighted the role of the judiciary in a democratic setup and said that the judiciary has to act as an independent institution exercising jurisdiction within its constitutional domain.

“The judiciary as a custodian of the Constitution has to check constitutional deviation and the arbitrary exercise of power by the other institutions so as to ensure rule of the law and fair administration of justice,” he observed.

“In the present democratic set-up, the judiciary is trying to buttress democratic and parliamentary norms. It has never tried to assume the role of the executive or the legislature rather it respects the integrity and independence of every other institution,” he observed, adding that the judiciary always played its part within the parameters of its constitutional domain. “The role of the judiciary is not that of an opposition to the legislature or the executive. However, in cases of unauthorised action in utter violation of legal or constitutional norms, the judiciary has to exercise its power of judicial review,” he added.

Taking notice of the target killings of lawyers in Karachi, the chief justice directed the administration to look into the matter with regard to lawyers’ security and protection. He asked the chief justice of the Sindh High Court to take up the matter of the murder of Maqboolur Rehman advocate with the law enforcement agencies and other administrative authorities. The advocate was shot dead by unidentified people this month.

He said that the Supreme Court in the Karachi law and order situation case had declared that both the federal and provincial governments should safeguard the fundamental rights of citizens, observing that protection of the life and liberty of citizens is the responsibility of the state. He said that the Supreme Court will take action if any violation of its order is found and further directives will be issued for compliance of the court orders.

Regarding the shortage of judges in the Sindh High Court, the chief justice said that he conducted meeting with the Supreme Court judges and the SHC Chief Justice over the issue and soon it will be resolved. He asked para-legal staff to call off their strike as due to their agitation the judicial system in the subordinate judiciary is badly affected adding the matter of para legal staff, which is sub-judice, will be decided soon and they should wait for the court verdict in their case. He asked judicial officers to expeditiously decide family and civil disputes as it is very disappointing that child custody and other civil disputes are pending for several years without any decision.

On the lawyers’ problems with regard to enrolment, he expressed the hope the Chief Justice of the SHC will look into the problems being faced by the lawyers and resolve such issues in an appropriate manner. He said that corruption is a vice that is impinging upon the process of fair dispensation of justice and expressed the hope that lawyers will join hand with the judiciary in order to cleanse the judicial and legal system from corrupt practice so as to provide timely access to fair and impartial judicial services. He also asked judicial officers to ensure there should not be unnecessary adjournment in cases and said that judges and lawyers can overcome the evil of unnecessary delays in civil and criminal litigation by setting deadlines for completion of cases and enforcing these deadlines.

The CJ said that much has been done after the National Judicial Policy and much need to be done as the judicial system is still faced with the problems of corruption, protracted litigation and procedural laws, adding that judges of superior courts and judicial officers will again convene a meeting in the last week of January or February for perusal of suggestions in making the NJP more effective and up to date.

Chief Justice of Sindh High Court Justice Mushir Alam said that the issue of shortage of judges will be addressed by February and lawyers from all of Sindh will be considered for filling the vacant positions. President Karachi Bar Association Mehmoodul Hasan and Secretary Khalid Mumtaz appreciated the role of the judiciary for the supremacy of law and the Constitution and presented the problems being faced by the legal fraternity.

A lawyers’ delegation also met the CJP. The chief justice said that he had discussed the matter with regard to the appointment of judges with the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court and necessary steps will be taken soon to increase the strength of the high court.

He met with the office-bearers and a delegation of the Sindh High Court Bar Association, led by its President Anwar Mansoor Khan, Karachi Bar Association, led by its President Mahmoodul Hassan, and Hyderabad as well as Sanghar District Bar Association led by President Mr. Nisar Ahmed Durani and former President Anwar Mehmood Nizamani.

The chief justice said that names for elevation of judges are initiated by the chief justice of the concerned high court and subsequently discussed by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan. The lawyer’s representatives discussed many issues of their concern/interest with the chief justice. The Sindh High Court Bar Association raised the issue of shortage of judges in the High Court of Sindh, because of which pendency is increasing.

The bar members also discussed various problems, including target killing of lawyers in Karachi and issues pertaining to administration of justice, in particular dismissal of cases on technical grounds as well as early dismissal of cases for non-prosecution. The chief justice assured he would look into these problems and have then discussed and resolved at the proper forum.

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said that loyalty to the state is the duty of every citizen and obedience to the Constitution and the law is the obligation of every citizen including lawyers.

Addressing lawyers enrolled for the Supreme Court from Sindh and Balochistan at the Supreme Court Karachi Registry, the chief justice said that judiciary and lawyers are working within the parameters of the Constitution and hoped that lawyers would continue to work for the rule of law in the country.

He said that judiciary has stopped the way of martial law through its judgment by declaring the provisional constitutional order on November 3 as illegal and unconstitutional. He said that lawyers have to play their role for the supremacy of the law and the Constitution. Meanwhile, the chief justice chaired a meeting of the building committee and reviewed the pace of ongoing development work including the construction of a judicial lock-up.

The meeting, which was attended among others by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany, Secretary Finance and Chief Engineer S.S. Farooq Kazi. The meeting also reviewed the construction and renovation work of servant quarters for SC employees.

Later, addressing the annual faculty dinner of the S M Law college, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry said citizens must be made aware of their basic and fundamental rights and basic legal education should also be included as part of general education at all levels.

The CJ said that right to education has been recently included in the chapter of fundamental rights. He said that it is unfortunate that education in general and legal education in particular has still has not been accorded the due importance it deserves.

“When it is said that ignorance of the law is no excuse then it is duty of the state to provide legal education,” he observed.

The chief justice said that the Higher Education Commission should play its role in monitoring the standard of education particularly in the institutions where professional education is being imparted and colleges, universities and other professional bodies must take care of quality and should not compromise on the standard of education.

“The universities, colleges and regulatory bodies especially in the field of the law must maintain the quality and standard of legal education without which the system of administration of justice cannot work properly,” he observed.

The chief justice expressed concern that so far there is no single law university in the country and observed that the judiciary have revised the role and scope of the federal judicial academy to be a centre of excellence where legal education at the highest levels of masters and doctorate would also be imparted alongwith arrangements for conducting special research in related subjects. He expressed the hope that every individual and a nation should set their priorities right and create an enabling environment where education is made the prime national objective. the CJP also remembered late Arfa Karim, the youngest Microsoft certified IT professional and said she is a reflection of the potential our people possess.

Power consumers to pay mark-up on energy sector debt

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided that now electricity consumers will have to pay Rs20 billion whooping interest on debts owed by the energy sector to commercial banks.

The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet that met here on Friday with Dr Hafeez Shaikh in the chair approved the debt swap of Rs160 billion to ease out the circular debt in the energy sector to increase the thermal power generation to the maximum to erase the crippling loadshedding. But the interest, which commercial banks will charge on TFCs (Terms Finance Certificates), would be paid by electricity consumers, a senior official who attended the meeting confided to The News.

If the existing interest rates are applied on arranging the whopping Rs160 billion, then the interest amount will stand at Rs20 billion, which will be paid by consumers as the impact of the interest amount will be included in the tariff and to this effect, Nepra would be issued the policy guidelines. “If kept in view the Rs20 billion as interest payment, then the power tariff will swell by over 2.6 percent,” the official said.

Eminent economist Dr Ashfaque H Khan, when contacted, said that forcing the power consumers to pay interest on Rs160 billion was cruelty. “This is not the way to run the country and economic policies. The government’s economic wizards are simply penalising the innocent masses and encouraging power theft.”

He said raising the power tariff had never been a solution in the past. It is not a solution today and it will never be a solution as we go forward. “The economic managers of the incumbent regime will simply run away from the country, leaving the innocent masses to suffer,” he added.

However, the official who attended the ECC meeting, explained that the government would extend the sovereign guarantee against the Rs160 billion TFCs. The government will pick up the Rs160 billion liabilities against the capacity charges of IPPs and will park them at the power holding company (PHC). The PHC will arrange the said amount through the TFCs from the local commercial banks on the interest rates which areyet to be decided between the Finance Ministry and commercial banks.

The official also said that the NTDC (National Transmission Dispatch Company) owes Rs404 billion but the government was going to arrange only Rs160 billion, ensuring reasonable breathing space to the IPPs that will help increase the thermal power generation.

The ECC also decided that commercial banks will also be requested to continue extending credit lines to the IPPs. To a question, the official said that TFCs would be of five years period and repayment would be paid by electric power distribution companies (Discos). Two years will be grace years to pay the amount with interest. The Discos will open a separate account to collect the revenue to deal with financial payments.

This means that the government would open the ESCROW account for Central Power Purchase Agency (CPPA) — the entity that will handle the financial management in power sector in the future. The CPPA will first be ensuring payments of the fuel cost and clear payments of the IPPs. After that, the CPPA will be paying off the administrative cost and clearing the payments of the electric power distribution companies.

The ECC also accorded approval to the Rs60 billion National Gas Efficiency Project under which the volume of UGF (unaccounted for gas) will be brought down by 4 percent to below 7 percent from the existing 10.8 percent. The Rs60 billion cost of the project also includes Rs14 billion as foreign exchange component.

The both gas utilities — Sui Southern and Sui Northern — have so far paid Rs31 billion as UFG penalty in the last eight years. The gas distribution network stands at 129,044 kilometres in the country and is helping provide gas to 6.22 million consumers.

Under the five-year plan from financial year 2011-12 to 2015-16, the UFG will be bought down by four percent to below seven percent. The World Bank has provided $200 million (Rs19 billion) to Sui Southern under the project for 20 years period, including five-year grace period at mark-up of 5% plus exchange rate risk.

The ECC approved a $200 million loan for Sui Southern. In the meeting it was also revealed that under the project, the Sui Northern would seek a loan of $100 million from the World Bank with 5% interest plus 6.5% exchange coverage fee.

The ECC meeting has allowed the purchase of 100,000 tons of sugar from the domestic producers. On the summary moved by the Ministry of Industry, the ECC asked the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) to resume loaning facility to farmers with immediate effect.

The ECC also constituted a sub-committee comprising the minister for water and power, minister for petroleum and natural resources, Planning Commission deputy chairman and finance secretary to look into gas sale purchase agreement with Turkmenistan along with the gas pricing formula under the Inter-State Gas System Private Limited with Turkmenistan.

The ECC approved in principle Low BTU Gas Pricing Policy for 2012, but made it subject to concurrence of the Law Division. The Law Division will decide whether the ECC or the CCI (Council of Common Interest) will approve the Low BTU gas policy.

A summary moved by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources maintained that this policy will be instrumental in providing sufficient incentives to investors in the field.

The committee constituted a group comprising PM’s adviser on agriculture and FBR chairman to look into procedure for the gradual increase of levy of 5% to 16% on sales tax on agricultural tractors, in three years.

It may be added that this subject was elaborately discussed in the ECC meeting held on December 2011, which had constituted a committee to review the matter.

While reviewing the sugar situation in the country, the Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh directed the TCP chairman to make the payment to all the millers expediently and make sure to avoid any lapse in it.

The TCP chairman informed the ECC that eight millers had been paid, and rest of the millers shall be positively paid by the end of this month.

Earlier, the finance secretary briefed the meeting on the current economic situation of the country, particularly on CPI, SPI, coming cotton and, rice crop, increase in exports, foreign exchange reserves, and borrowing from the State Bank.

The ECC paid rich tributes to Salman Siddique for his outstanding services of as FBR chairman, who shall stand retired this month. Hafeez Shaikh said that Siddique made historic records in the collection of revenue, which will be taken as a precedent for other officers in the Revenue and Finance Division.

Mac Pro: Power consumption and thermal output (BTU) information

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Learn about the power consumption and thermal output of Mac Pro computers.

Products Affected

Mac Pro, Mac Pro (Early 2008), Mac Pro (Early 2009), Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
Quad-core 2.8GHz configuration: One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processor, 3GB memory (three 1GB 1066MHz DDR3 ECC DIMMs), 1 TB Serial ATA 3 Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive, 18x double-layer SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory Power Consumption Thermal Output Idle CPU Max Idle CPU Max 125 W 218 W 426 BTU/h 742 BTU/h

 

Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
8-core 2.4GHz configuration: Two 2.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Westmere" processor, 6GB memory (six 1GB 1066MHz DDR3 ECC DIMMs), 1 TB Serial ATA 3 Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive, 18x double-layer SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory Power Consumption Thermal Output Idle CPU Max Idle CPU Max 162 W 248 W 552 BTU/h 845 BTU/h

 

Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
12-core 2.66GHz configuration: Two 2.66GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon "Westmere" processor, 6GB memory (six 1GB 1333MHz DDR3 ECC DIMMs), 1 TB Serial ATA 3 Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive, 18x double-layer SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory Power Consumption Thermal Output Idle CPU Max Idle CPU Max 145 W 285 W 494 BTU/h 972 BTU/h

 

Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Quad-core 2.66GHz configuration: One 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" 3500 series processor, 3GB memory (three 1GB 1066MHz DDR3 ECC DIMMs), 640 GB Serial ATA 3 Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive, 18x double-layer SuperDrive, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB of GDDR3 memory Power Consumption Thermal Output Idle CPU Max Idle CPU Max 115 W 263 W 391 BTU/h 894 BTU/h

 

Mac Pro (Early 2009)
8-core 2.26GHz configuration: Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" 5500 series processors, 6GB memory (six 1GB 1066MHz DDR3 ECC DIMMs), 640 GB Serial ATA 3 Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive, 18x double-layer SuperDrive, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB of GDDR3 memory Power Consumption Thermal Output Idle CPU Max Idle CPU Max 146 W 309 W 496 BTU/h 1051 BTU/h

 

Mac Pro (Early 2008)
8-core 2.8GHz Configuration: Two 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series processors, 12 MB L2 cache per processor, 1600 MHz dual independent frontside buses, 2 GB memory (800 MHz DDR2 fully buffered DIMM ECC), ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics with 256 MB of GDDR3 memory, 320 GB Serial ATA 3 Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive, 16x double-layer SuperDrive Power Consumption Thermal Output Idle CPU Max Idle CPU Max 155 W 318 W 528 BTU/h 1085 BTU/h

 

Mac Pro
Quad Core 2.66 GHz Mac Pro Two 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 series processors, 4MB shared L2 cache per processor, 1.33GHz dual independent frontside busses, 1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC), NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory, 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200rpm drive, 16x double-layer SuperDrive Power Consumption Thermal Output Idle CPU Max Idle CPU Max 171 W 250 W 584 BTU/h 853 BTU/h Notes Power consumption data (watts) is measured from the wall power source and includes all power supply and system losses. Additional correction is not needed. "CPU Max" is defined as running a compute-intensive test application that maximizes processor usage and therefore power consumption. These numbers reflect a 23°C (73.4° F) ambient running environment. Increased ambient temperatures will require faster fan speeds which will increase power consumption. At 35° C (95° F), 50 W should be added to reflect increased power consumption. These numbers reflect no additional PCI Express cards installed.

 

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