Pakistan, July 24 -- A legislative body of the Upper House of parliament on Tuesday stressed the need for maximum generation of hydroelectricity, so that dependence on expensive power generation could be reduced.

The cheaper power generation would help in reducing power consumer electric bills. These discussions were made during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Power, which was held on Tuesday in Parliament House, with Senator Fida Muhammad in the chair.

The committee discussed the installed and peak season generation of hydroelectricity along with details of all power stations in the country was told that the total hydel WAPDA installed capacity is 9,387 MW and hydel IPPs capacity of 382 MW.

The average daily generation w...