Category: Power

Oct 05, 2012 (LBO) – Water inflows to Sri Lanka’s hydro power plants up to September 2012 was the lowest in 20-years and much lower than a year earlier which was also a drought year, the island’s power ministry said. “We are not cutting power like in India,” the minister was quoted as saying. “That […]

Sept 27, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will get 130 million US dollars in Asian Development Bank financing to cut losses in the power grid, expand supply to former war zones and for pilot rooftop solar panel installations. The regional lender said the financing will help the government reach its target of cutting system losses […]

Sept 21, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board will connect the northern Jaffna peninsula to the national power grid on September 25, with the commissioning of a power line to the north, officials said. Next year a high tension 132kVA transmission standard line from Kilonocchi to Chunnakham is to be commissioned along […]

Sept 17, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s power generation rose 5.3 percent to 5,875 GigaWatt hours (millions of units) in the six month to June from a year earlier, while growth during the month was 2.0 percent, official data shows. During the month of June power generation rose 2. 0 percent to 982GWh. CEB’s hydro […]

Sept 13, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is evaluating a proposal to build a floating liquefied natural gas terminal to supply over 1,000MegaWatts of combined cycle power plants that are running on furnace oil and a planned new one, minister Champika Ranawaka said. Another 300MW power plant was also planned in Kerawalapitiya, he said. “We […]

Sept 12, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board and a Chinese contractor is working to rectify problems with the island’s first coal power plant and changes will be made to two others that have not yet been finished, officials said. He said Chinese and Sri Lankan engineers had come up with reports […]

Sept 06, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has halted daily power cuts that came into effect last month after a coal fired power plant that was crucial to the system broke down, until further notice, the ministry of power and energy said. Data from the Ceylon Electricity Board shows about 25 percent of the energy […]

Aug 29, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s renewable energy firms have demanded higher tariffs after the rupee depreciated and interest rates rose following a balance of payments crisis, at a public consultation called by the power regulator. Renewable energy firms said the rupee had depreciated from 110 to over 130 (about 18 percent) over the […]

Aug 22, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Chinese built coal plant which is breaking down repeatedly has been over-used without scheduled maintenance but had still saved billions of rupees to the power utility, its designer has said. Zhao Wenxue, from the Northwest Electric Design Institute which designed the plant said in a statement that most […]

August 18, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka said its 455 million dollar Chinese funded power plant will resume operation in two weeks, after its breakdown earlier in the week resulted in countrywide power cuts, a report said. “There are some technical problems in the Lakvijaya power plant. The Chinese company, the Ceylon Electricity Board and […]

Aug 17, 2012 (LBO) – Trade unions of state monopoly power utility, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has called off a strike and agreed to work on five demands from an initial twelve, the ministry of power and energy releasing a statement said. The decision to call off the strike was taken following a discussion […]

Aug 16, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s power minister Patali Champika Ranawaka has urged CEB trade unions to give up disruptive terror tactics and report to work and resolve worker grievances through discussions, the ministry releasing a statement said. Ranawaka alleged that politically motivated CEB trade unions have disrupted the power supply in the Ampara […]