Category: Power

Dec 07, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s national power system failed shortly before dawn Friday, plunging the island in darkness as a thermal generator tripped out of the grid, officials said. A combined cycle thermal power plant at Sri Lanka’s state-owned Ceylon Electricity Board’s (CEB) Kelanitissa thermal generation complex had tripped at 4.48 am local […]

LONDON, Nov 21, 2007 (AFP) – Britain is to build the biggest biomass plant in the world, Business Secretary John Hutton said after giving the green light to the renewable energy project.Doug Parr, Greenpeace UK’s science spokesman, also lamented the fact it would not produce heating too and expressed concerns about the wood being transported […]

Nov 13, 2007 (LBO) – A power investor says it may take more than two years to set up a thermal plant if it was given the go ahead now, after Sri Lanka’s power minister said the state electricity utility was seeking additional capacity. . “If we were given the go ahead now, it may […]

Nov 09, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will shortly call for the supply of 200MegaWatts of private power to bridge an energy deficit until a coal plant comes on stream, officials said. Energy Minister John Seneviratne told LBO that the cabinet of ministers had given the nod to call for proposals from existing independent power […]