Updated 13 July 2026

How to Check the SEPCO Load Shedding Schedule

SEPCO publishes no reliable public schedule page, but shedding isn't random either — it's set per feeder based on that feeder's loss and recovery profile. Here's how to find your feeder's hours and act on unscheduled outages.

How shedding is decided

Under the national policy, feeders are categorised by their AT&C losses (theft + unpaid bills). Low-loss feeders get zero or minimal shedding; high-loss feeders can face many hours daily. That's why one neighbourhood in Sukkur has near-continuous supply while another a kilometre away doesn't — and why your area's schedule changes when its recovery figures change.

Ways to find your feeder's hours

1. Call 118 and ask for the current shedding schedule for your feeder — give your reference number or feeder name (printed on your bill near the subdivision details).
2. Ask at the subdivision (SDO) office — they hold the operative schedule for every feeder they manage.
3. Local sources: area WhatsApp groups and the SEPCO/local press often circulate seasonal schedule changes faster than any official channel.
4. For planned maintenance shutdowns, SEPCO announces feeder-level timings in local newspapers a day or two ahead.

Scheduled vs unscheduled outages

• If outages consistently exceed the schedule you were quoted, that's a legitimate complaint — log it on 118 each time and keep the complaint numbers.
• Repeated feeder tripping (short random cuts) usually indicates an overloaded transformer or line fault — report it; this is a repairable fault, not policy shedding.
• A pattern of unresolved complaints is escalatable to XEN and then NEPRA.

Living with it: practical notes

• Size UPS batteries to your feeder's real worst-case hours, not the advertised ones.
• Solar + battery combos decouple you from daytime shedding entirely — see the 2026 solar guide.
• Community bill recovery genuinely changes categories: feeders that improve collections get moved to lower-shedding tiers.