Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has given directives to make arrangements to generate 5,000 MW via renewable energy sources and add them to the national grid within next six years, Minister of Highways Johnston Fernando says. As a part of the new programme, the approval of the cabinet sub-committee has been given to India’s Adani […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) says it has approved the request of the Ceylon Electricity Board for emergency power purchase subject to the conditions given by the PUCSL. Considering the existing fuel shortage of the country and electrical energy capacity shortage of the CEB, coupled up with the long term […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පවතින ඩීසල් අර්බුදය අනිද්දා පමණ වන විට පහව යනු ඇති බව ඛනිජ තෙල් තොග ගබඩා පර්යන්ත සමාගම පවසනවා. කෙසේ වෙතත් අද දිනයේත් දිවයින පුරා පිරවුම්හල් අසළ පෝලිම් දක්නට ලැබුණා. ඇතැම් ස්ථානවල ඉන්ධන මිලදී ගැනීමට පැමිණ සිටි ජනතාව අතර ද උණුසුම් තත්ත්වයක් ඇති වුණා. එමෙන්ම, දින කිහිපයකට පසු ඇතැම් ඉන්ධනහල්වලට ඉන්ධන ලැබීමත් […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has approved the request made by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) to have rotational power shedding for over seven hours on Monday (07) despite an earlier statement saying there would be no power cuts from March 05. The PUCSL granted permission for seven […]

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Chandre Dharmawardana This alleged ‘unreliability of solar and wind energy’ is a matter brought up repeatedly by the CEB, and was also brought up by even knowledgeable commentators, like Dr. Kumar David, a professor of electrical engineering. The unreliability exists if you rely on the sun shining on one or two large installations. But, if […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has approved the request made by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) for rotational load shedding tomorrow (Feb. 23), due to the shortage of fuel supplies.  PUCSL Chairman Janaka Ratnayake said that power cuts of 04 hours and 40 minutes will be imposed in the areas […]

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by Sanath Nanayakkare Courtesy The Island From Left: Manjula Perera, Wind Power Developers Association Secretary, Thusitha Peiris, Small Hydro Power Developers Association President, Lasith Wimalasena, Ground Mounted Solar Developers Association President, Chamil Silva, Bio Energy Developers Association President, Kushan Jayasuriya, Solar Industries Association President. In the backdrop of dwindling foreign currency reserves and capacity shortages, […]

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