{"id":116829,"date":"2021-08-06T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116829"},"modified":"2021-08-06T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T22:45:07","slug":"sri-lanka-targets-70-percent-renewable-energy-goal-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/06\/sri-lanka-targets-70-percent-renewable-energy-goal-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka targets 70 percent renewable energy goal by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka will mandate a 70 percent renewable energy share by 2030 forcing state-run Ceylon Electricity Board to prepare a long term generation plan to that effect, renewable energy minister Duminda Dissanayake said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have decided to produce 70 percent of the electricity from renewable energy by 2030,\u201d State Minister for Renewable Energy Duminda Dissanayake told parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The balance 30 percent will be from other sources. After 2030 the balance will also be from renewable sources and we will go to 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing we have to do is for the Honorable (Cabinet) Minister to gazette the 70 percent for the CEB to make their long term generation expansion plan (LTGEP).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sustainable Energy Authority has prepared a plan on how to go to 70 percent renewable energy by 2030 and given it to the minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Sri Lanka will mandate a 70 percent renewable energy share by 2030 forcing state-run Ceylon Electricity Board to prepare a long term generation plan to that effect, renewable energy minister Duminda Dissanayake said. We have decided to produce 70 percent of the electricity from renewable energy by [&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-116829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116829","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=116829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}