Through 7,000 solar power plant installations, national grid to get 700 MW within three years: Power Minister
Posted on March 25th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Under the programme titled ‘power plant to the village’, the government has planned to complete installing 7,000 solar power plants within three years and contribute 700 MW to the national grid, Power Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said.
Addressing the media to announce the plans to launch the first phase of the 7,000 Solar Power Plant project to be constructed islandwide in association with 7,000 selected transformers.
Accordingly, 880 power plants will be constructed as the first phase of the project and calling for tenders had already commenced today, the Minister said.
He said under the first phase, these power plants will be added to the national grid within seven months.
“These 7,000 power plants will be set up under a 20-year agreement with the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and that there would be no political impact on them. If anyone dreaming of a change in the government, we should wish him a good night’s sleep,” the Minister said. (Chaturanga Samarawickrama)
March 29th, 2021 at 3:08 pm
Must encourage every house to have solar panels where several solar panels from several houses could be connected to a single invertor which will feed the national grid. Government should pay every householder a fixed sum per every panel installed. This would encourage a massive cottage industry whereby our finance companies could finance the house holder. One have the threat of monkeys disturbing the panels which I experience in my commercial building in the island, thus causing leaks in the roof.