Category: Power

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 […]

Aug 15, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has extended the time duration of power cuts to three hours and twenty minutes starting Thursday until a faulty Chinese built coal power plant is fully restored, the ministry of power and energy releasing a statement said. Ekala, Sapugaskanda, Angoda, Thalangama, Koswatta, Weyangoda, Nittambuwa, Yakkala, Malabe road, Athurugiriya, […]

Aug 14, 2012 (LBO) – A US based company has introduced a daylight capturing device to the Sri Lankan market that can channel natural light inside buildings through an internal reflective system cutting energy costs and reducing the heat load on air-conditioning, an official said. Solatube says they are eyeing Sri Lanka’s garment factories, manufacturing […]

Aug 14, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka should withdraw a currency note bearing the picture of a Chinese built coal plant that was contracted out without open tendering and is now continually breaking down, a legislator has said. Sri Lanka’s central bank placed the picture of a 455 million US dollar coal power plant built […]

August 12, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s power minister has sought cabinet approval to raise state-run Ceylon Electricity Board’s borrowing limit to 74.2 billion rupees to meet increasing fuel needs, settle debts and pay independent power producers, a report said. Minister Champika Ranawaka told his cabinet colleagues that the state power utility owed 16 billion […]

Aug 08, 2012 (LBO) –Sri Lanka will cut power for two hours and fifteen minutes during the daytime Thursday (August 09) owing to a breakdown in a Chinese build coal plant in the north western region in the Island, the power ministry releasing a statement said. Some areas in northern and southern zones in the […]

Aug 08, 2012 (LBO) – Power generation in Sri Lanka’s newly built Lakvijaya coal power plant in north-western Puttalam district has been temporarily suspended due to a problem in a transmission line,the ministry of power and energy releasing a statement said. The ministry said a sudden breakdown in the transmission line which takes power from […]

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 […]