Category: Power

May 6, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka and India has held discussions on civil nuclear technology to hammer out a deal on bilateral co-operation, India’s High Commission (embassy) in Colombo said.The Indian delegation to Colombo made up of representatives of Department of Atomic Energy of India was led by Amandeep Singh Gill Joint Secretary (Disarmament) […]

Apr 14, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s central bank has sounded a note of caution of caution over the rising burden of renewable power on consumers as the proportion of non-conventional renewable power (NCRE) increases in the grid.Mini-hydro feed in tariffs are among the cheapest.Almost all sources non-conventional of renewable power except waste heat are […]

Apr 11, 2014 (LBO) – With a second 300 MegaWatt power plant beginning test runs, more than one third of Sri Lanka’s daily electricity needs are now being generated from coal-fired energy, official data show.On the April 09, out of the daily energy requirement of 35.6 GigaWatt hours (millions of units of electricity), 35.6 percent […]

Apr 11, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Ceylon Electricity Board has made operating profits of 24.6 billion rupees in 2013, the Central Bank said, amid reports that it had lost 24.3 billion rupees in the first quarter of 2014 due to a drought. In 2013 power sales had rise 1.4 percent to 10,475 GigaWatt hours […]

Apr 07, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Lankem Ceylon Plc said it is buying a 43.5 percent stake in Waverly Power (Pvt) Ltd, a hydro electricity company for 102 million rupees.The stake was held by another Lankem unit, Agarapatana Plantations Ltd, Lankem said in a stock exchange filing. Agarapanta is not a listed company. Prior […]

Mar 31, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board has lost over 24 billion rupees in the past quarter with low rainfall hitting hydro power, a media report said, raising concerns over credit expansion and exchange rate stability.The Sunday Times newspaper quoting a letter written by CEB General Manager Shavi Fernando said CEB […]

Mar 21, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Laugfs Gas Plc, a group with interests in energy, retailing and leisure said the first phase of a mini hydro power plant has started operations on March 17.It will sell power to state-run Ceylon Electricity Board. Laugfs had earlier said its Ranmudu Oya mini-hydro plant is Balangoda will […]

Mar 15, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Ports Authority is in discussions with an Australia based firm to set up a liquefied natural facility to drive an industrial zone in Hambantota instead of coal, an official said. SLPA chairman Priyath Wickrama said several heavy industries in the port initially planned to use coal, which could […]

Mar 07, 2014 (LBO) – Excessively large numbers of people are dying in Sri Lanka from electrocution partly due to illegal power tapping, unsafe practices and carelessness, a regulatory official said.We are not an electrically safe country, Nilantha Sapumanage, Director Inspectorate of Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka told a forum in Colombo organized by […]

GADANI, February 19, 2014 (AFP) – After years of rolling blackouts that have wreaked havoc on industry and fuelled political unrest, energy-starved Pakistan has set its sights on a coal-fired future. Regarded as the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, recent discoveries of untapped coal fields in southern Pakistan have convinced the government they could be […]

Jan 31, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is probing a Chinese built coal plant for possible material, design or construction defects, following leaks in a steam cooling unit, officials said. Power minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said she had informed Chinese embassy officials at a meeting in Colombo that the builders had to bear responsibility for the […]

Jan 09, 2014 (LBO) – Thermal generation at Sri Lanka’s state-run power utility has reached 70 percent with a sharp drop in cheap hydro generation amid dry weather, official data shows.On January 07, Ceylon Electricity Board generated 69.9 percent of its daily 32.5 GigaWatts (millions of units of electricity) from thermal sources with hydro at […]