Category: Power

Aug 06, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board will connect 30MegaWatts of wind power from three privately owned wind power plants this week, pushing total capacity to 63MW, the islands, power ministry said. The three plants will contribute about 90 Giga Watt hours (millions of units) of energy a year, or about […]

July 26, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has repaired an breakdown-prone Chinese built 300 MegaWatt coal plant allowing the state-run Ceylon Electricity Board end to power cuts, the power ministry said. The CEB has provided continuous power with no official power cut for more than 10 years until the Chinese plant went down. The power […]

July 24, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will cut three hours of power, two hours and fifteen minutes during the daytime and 45 minutes during an evening peak demand period, the ministry of power said after a Chinese build coal plant broke down. Sri Lanka is having one of the driest years in more than […]

July 23, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board is expecting to repair a coal power plant in three days which can spell an end to electricity rationing which started Tuesday, the power ministry said. The CEB started three hour power cuts from today, ending more than 10 years of power supply with […]

July, 23 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will have two hour power cuts daily, the first in over a decade, following the outage of a 300 MegaWatt coal plant that generated about 20 percent of the daily energy needs of the country. Industry analysts say it could be run a so-called ‘merchant plant’ if the […]

July 10, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s hydro storage rose 30.4 GigaWatt hours to 319.1 GWh after strong showers on July 09 brought inflows mostly into small ponds in the Kelani River complex. According Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board data total hyrdo storage slipped to 288.7 GWh (millions of units) on Sunday, after slipping […]

July 06, 2012 (LBO) – Ceylon Electricity Board, Sri Lanka’s state-run power utility is losing 200 million rupees a day, and a ministerial committee is making proposals to fix the energy sector, power minister Champika Ranawaka said. Ministers John Seneviratne (an former power minister), A H M Fowzie (a former petroleum minister) Nimal Siripala de […]

July 6, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board is in the final stage of discussions with India’s National Thermal Power Corporation to build a 500 MegaWatt coal plant, an official said. “We are in final stage of discussion,” deputy chairman of Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Electricity Board Anura Senaka Wijayapala said. “We hope […]

July 05, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s power users should cut energy use by 10 percent to help avoid power cuts until more rain comes in the inter monsoonal period, power minister Champika Ranawaka said. “We will keep providing power. But if energy is conserved by another 5 percent, it will make it easier for […]

July 01, 2012 (LBO) – Dendro power plants in Sri Lanka may be unviable if too many are licensed to operate close to each other because competition may drive up firewood prices to high levels, an industry official has warned. Tokyo Power, a unit of Sri Lanka’s Tokyo Cement group is building a 5 MegaWatt […]

June 20, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s thermal power generation had picked up sharply in the first quarter of 2012 with total generation up 8.8 percent from a year earlier while hydro generation fell steeply, official data shows. Total generation rose 8.8 percent to 2,956 GigaWatt hours (millions of units) indicating strong demand in the […]

May 29, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Vallibel Power Erathna Plc, a mini hydro firm, said it lost 13. 04 million rupees in the March 2012 quarter as revenues fell amid drought and a tariff paid by the state power utility also decreased. The firm reported losses of 2 cents per share for the quarter. […]