by Garvin Karunaratne

It is sad that even today when we have to live with power cuts, we yet do not realize the wind power that Mother Nature has provided for us. We have been toying with the sea breeze in Hambantota and Mannar, merely a plan by our Coal and Oil Lobby to prove that wind power will not turn the wind turbines- they plan and fix wind turbines where the wind has the least force- only a sea breeze!

I enclose a quote from ee.com which comments on my Paper: Buying Power from Multinationals. 

It is hoped that the tears and tribulations that our people today suffer from the lack of electricty will urge out leaders to think twice about producing electricty from the wind that abounds in our hills. Full details of how wind power is the real solution to our power requirements is proved in my book: Wind  Power for Sri Lanka’s Energy Requirements, Godages, 2019.

It is time that our leaders open their eyes.

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C2. Buying Power from Multinationals

Garvin Karunaratne recalls his experience of 18 years working in stations like Hambantota as well as in the hilly Districts of Kandy and Nuwara Eliya. He chides the authorities for erecting wind turbines on the coast. He believes that the authorities seem to be working to prove that wind turbines are not suitable for Sri Lanka.

Karunaratne then mentions his vast travel experience and states that the US, Spain Portugal and many more countries have put up wind turbines never at their coastal areas but in their hills. Further he highlights authorities that have noted the vast resources of wind power in Sri Lanka. He urges Sri Lanka to use its wind resources and he actually has requested the State Engineering Corporation engineers who did make long concrete poles to hold the canopy for the Avukana Buddha statue to be enlisted to make the wind turbines. He emphasizes that Sri Lanka can become self sufficient in all its power requirements if only a few hundred wind turbines are constructed and he states that this can be done within a year.

Karunaratne speaks with the broad experience of having worked designing and establishing the Youth Self Employment Programme of Bangladesh in two years, a programme that has created employment for millions of youths, something which even the ILO  had failed earlier. He urges and provides many facts showing that wind power holds the magical solution for Sri Lanka.

– www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2019/04/09/buying-power-from-multinationals/