MEPCO Load Shedding Schedule: Check Your Feeder

A MEPCO load shedding schedule is useful only when it matches your feeder and the date you need. A timetable shared in a neighbourhood group may refer to a different circuit, an old month or a one-off maintenance shutdown.

MEPCO's Ease of Doing Business page lists load-shedding, feeder-wise schedule and power-shutdown resources. Use those official entry points to look for the latest notice. This page does not publish a live timetable or claim that any particular area will have electricity at a particular hour.

Find the right MEPCO load shedding schedule

Keep your connection reference and service address ready. If you know the feeder name, copy its spelling exactly. If you do not, ask the company which feeder supplies the connection rather than selecting the nearest familiar place name from a list.

A postal neighbourhood and an electrical feeder are not interchangeable labels. Two premises close to one another can be served differently. Avoid sharing someone else's timetable as though it applies to every street in the area.

Read the date before the time

When you open a schedule, check its heading, effective period and any footnote. A search engine's recent crawl date is not the schedule's effective date. A PDF headed with an earlier year remains an old PDF even if it appeared in today's search results.

Check four things before planning around it:

1. Does the feeder identifier match the one confirmed for your connection?
2. Does the notice cover the date you are checking?
3. Is the time a load-management window or a maintenance shutdown?
4. Is there a newer correction, cancellation or replacement notice?

Save the source link alongside a screenshot. An image without its heading can lose the information that makes the timetable meaningful.

A schedule is not a fault diagnosis

If power goes off outside the published window, look for an official update. A local fault, maintenance work and scheduled load management are different explanations. The timetable alone cannot tell you which one applies to the outage you are experiencing.

When reporting an interruption, note when it started and whether the issue appears limited to your premises or also affects nearby premises. Describe what you know, not what you suspect happened inside a transformer.

Stay away from damaged equipment, fallen conductors and flooded electrical areas. Do not open a meter enclosure or attempt to restore a utility supply yourself.

Keep a useful outage note

For repeated interruptions, record the date, start time, restoration time, feeder if known, complaint reference and company response. A short factual log is easier to follow than a collection of forwarded voice messages.

For example, “power lost at 14:10; reported at 14:25; restored at 15:05” is a useful observation. It does not prove why the outage occurred. Keeping that distinction helps when you ask the company to review a recurring problem.

If you rely on powered medical equipment, discuss a suitable backup plan with the relevant care or equipment professional. Do not rely on an online schedule as a guarantee of uninterrupted supply.

Frequently asked questions

Are tariff peak hours the same as load shedding?

No. Peak-hour billing concerns the applicable time-of-use charging period. A load-shedding schedule concerns supply interruptions.

Can I use a Multan-wide timetable for every connection?

Confirm the feeder for your own connection. A city name is not enough to establish an exact schedule.

What if the schedule link will not open?

Check the latest notice on the official company site or ask the contact printed on your bill. Do not substitute an old screenshot without checking its date.

Does an outage automatically reduce my bill?

An outage timetable does not calculate your bill. Check the actual readings and charges separately.

Use our MEPCO bill guide for the bill record and the meter-reading guide when reviewing recorded consumption.