Category: Power

July 30, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is studying locations to site a high tech coal plant for which funding is expected from Japan, after concerns over the initial location, a top official said. The 500 MegaWatt coal plant was to be built at Athuruwella in the South West coast of the island. Power ministry […]

July 08, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence Power, a unit of Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence group has put two 24 MegaWatt plants for which power purchase agreements have expired for sale.Aitken Spence in a web notice said it invited offers for the plants, each of which had four Wartsila Vaasa Engines running on […]

July 8, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will begin building a 35 MegaWatt ‘Broadlands’ hydro power plant, on July 15 in Polpitiya, Kithulgala, the power ministry said.The plant will produce 126 GigaWatt hours of energy a year for state-run Ceylon Electricity Board. The 82 million dollar plant will be 85 percent financed by China Development […]

July 01, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Chamber of Commerce said it is holding an expert forum for businesses looking for ways to cut power use after a recent hike. “The recent escalation in electricity tariffs was estimated to increase the electricity bills of most industrial, hotel and commercial enterprises by about 20 30 […]

COLOMBO, June 29, 2013 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan man suffered a fatal heart attack after being presented with a shocking electricity bill, a media report said Saturday.The 61-year-old victim had protested at the Ceylon Electricity Board in Colombo Friday that his bill had suddenly spiked, the Ceylon Today newspaper said. It said the man […]

June 25, 2013 (LBO) – Larger households in Sri Lanka are charged the highest tariff in the region for electricity, but industrial and commercial charges are lower than some key countries in South and East Asia, analysis of published rates has shown. In Sri Lanka, very large households using 600 kiloWatt hours charged about 50.23 […]

June 12, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s power generation rose 02 percent in March 2013 to 1,057 GigaWatt hours (millions of units) from a year earlier, recovering from a slump in February official data showed.In February 2013 power generation fell 1.4 percent to 913 GWh from a year earlier. In February 2012, Sri Lanka raised […]

June 04, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s larger hotels are starting to use energy and water saving technology but there is potential to save operating costs including in those under construction, a study has found. International Finance Corporation a World Bank unit said among the three, four and five star hotels surveyed good practices were […]

May 26, 2013 (LBO) – China offered to make a 300 MegaWatt coal fired power plant, which has been hit by a series of shutdowns, an independent power producer (IPP), a government minister said.Power sector officials have said that the frequent ‘breakdowns’ were partly due to the relative inexperience of engineers operating the plant as […]

May 14, 2013 (LBO) – An Indian Ocean cyclone named after an ancient Sri Lankan king who is famed for building irrigation tanks had brought the highest water inflows in a single day to the island’s hydro power storage system. More water from yesterday’s rain held in catchment areas are expected to flow into the […]

May 9, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Public Utility Commission has set electricity tariffs reverting to an earlier system of charging by slabs, responding consumer comments at a public hearing.The regulator also made no change to users of up to 60 units complying with a speech made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on May Day following […]

May 03, 2013 (LBO) – A change made to an electricity tariff hike from April 2013 will reduce expected revenues by 8.0 billion rupees a year, a media report said.In 2012 the CEB lost 61 billion rupees. This year the loss increased partly due to an increase in furnace oil prices which in turn would […]