{"id":109488,"date":"2020-12-08T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109488"},"modified":"2020-12-08T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:30:09","slug":"sri-lankas-largest-wind-power-plant-joins-national-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/08\/sri-lankas-largest-wind-power-plant-joins-national-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s largest wind power plant joins national grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adaderanaenglish.s3.amazonaws.com\/1607413221-Sri-Lankas-largest-wind-power-plant-joins-national-grid-B.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s largest wind power plant joins national grid\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s first state-owned wind-powered electricity generating plant was declared open in Mannar this morning (December 08).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Located in Mannar \u2018Thambapavani\u2019 is the largest wind power plant complex in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marking a historic milestone in Sri Lanka\u2019s power generation, the power plant was declared open by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phase of the wind power plant is expected to generate 100 megawatts of wind power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Thambapavani\u2019, operating as an eco-friendly project, is valued at USD 135 million. The project was completed within a period of less than one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wind power plant can generate electricity for a cost as little as Rs 8 per unit, said Velu Chandrasekaran, the Environment and Social Security Officer of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s first state-owned wind-powered electricity generating plant was declared open in Mannar this morning (December 08). Located in Mannar \u2018Thambapavani\u2019 is the largest wind power plant complex in the country. Marking a historic milestone in Sri Lanka\u2019s power generation, the power plant was declared open by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The phase [&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-109488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109488","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=109488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}