{"id":108985,"date":"2020-11-24T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108985"},"modified":"2020-11-24T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:00:30","slug":"sri-lanka-seeks-consultants-for-100m-solar-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/24\/sri-lanka-seeks-consultants-for-100m-solar-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka seeks consultants for $100m solar project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>PV Magazine<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> The project will be developed under a credit line facility from the Exim Bank of India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority has issued a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.gov.lk\/images\/procurement\/bid-document-for-consultancy-service-to-prepare-pre-feasibility-study-on-usd-100-million-solar-power-project.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tender<\/a>&nbsp;to seek consultants for the pre-feasibility study of a large scale PV power plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project will be developed under a $100 million credit line facility from the Exim Bank of India. Of this sum, $85 million will be devoted to the deployment of rooftop PV arrays in government buildings under the country&#8217;s net metering scheme, $5 million will be used for floating installations, and $10 million will be allocated for installing solar-plus-storage systems for low-income households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interested consultants will have time until December 9 to submit their bids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a recent joint study by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Asian Development Bank (ADB),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2020\/03\/09\/sri-lanka-launches-150-mw-solar-tender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sri Lanka<\/a>&nbsp;has the potential to deploy 16 GW of solar power. It aims to cover its entire power demand with renewables by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of 2019, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency, the country had 215 MW of installed solar power. Through its solar energy program, dubbed the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2018\/01\/26\/sri-lanka-issues-tender-for-90-mw-of-solar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Soorya Bala Sangramaya<\/a>&nbsp;(battle for solar energy), Sri Lanka hopes to add 1 GW by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PV Magazine The project will be developed under a credit line facility from the Exim Bank of India. The Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority has issued a&nbsp;tender&nbsp;to seek consultants for the pre-feasibility study of a large scale PV power plant. The project will be developed under a $100 million credit line facility from the Exim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}