Sri Lanka power plants shut down over fuel snag
Sept 10, 2009 (LBO) – Several power plants supplying Sri Lanka’s national power grid has shut down following problem with furnace oil supplied by …
Sept 10, 2009 (LBO) – Several power plants supplying Sri Lanka’s national power grid has shut down following problem with furnace oil supplied by …
Sept 08, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Hemas Power, a unit of listed Hemas Holdings is seeking up to 626 million rupees through a sale of 31.3 million …
Aug 24, 209 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Hemas Holdings group said the Colombo stock exchange has approved its application to list a power subsidiary, Hemas …
July 24, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s electricity generation in May 2009 fell 3.6 percent to 834 million units (GigaWatt hours) from a year earlier, …
July 22, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has invited bids to supply 2.4 million metric tomes of coal for the country’s first coal power plant built by …
July 22, 2009 (LBO) – Use of solar power to pump water in remote Sri Lankan villages in a trial project designed by British engineers helps save fuel …
GUESSING, July 5, 2009 (AFP) – After 20 years investing in renewable energy, the small Austrian town of Guessing, a model of energy self-sufficiency, is …
June 30, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has got Chinese financing to add 600 Mega Watts of coal powered capacity to a generation complex where the first stage is …
April 29, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has set up an energy efficient lighting centre with United States support aimed at promoting clean and low-cost lighting …
April 29, 2009 (LBO) – The finances of Sri Lanka’s cash-strapped state-run power utility, Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), could improve in May, a …
April 27, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run power utility is in financial trouble because politicians have made wrong decisions, a government …
April 24, 2009 (LBO) – The Sri Lankan government said the Cabinet has approved a foreign aid funded project to expand and improve electricity services, …
April 15, 2009 (LBO) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it will provide 160 million US dollars in loans to Sri Lanka to expand and improve …
March 12, 2009 (LBO) – An Australian consultancy that won tax concessions to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) fired power plant for Sri …
Mar 09, 2009 (LBO) – Hydro storage at Sri Lanka’s state-run power utility fell below 300 million units or 24 percent of capacity, with the firm …
Feb 13, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run power utility is under pressure from poor rainfall, but it is hoping to weather the dry season in the …
Jan 24, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has given tax concessions to an Australian consultancy to develop a 488 MegaWatt liquefied natural gas (LNG) fired power …
Dec 10, 2008 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan hydro-power firm which has developed a string of private plants in the island, has been engaged to speed up a stalled …
Oct 29, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger guerrilla aircraft struck a key power station in the capital Colombo in a night raid, and bombed a …
Oct 10, 2008 (LBO) – A new 36 MegaWatt power plant that will come online in the northern Jaffna peninsular at the end of the month ending power cuts in …