{"id":120810,"date":"2021-12-02T18:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T01:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120810"},"modified":"2021-12-02T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T01:01:13","slug":"chinese-energy-project-on-three-sri-lankan-islands-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/02\/chinese-energy-project-on-three-sri-lankan-islands-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese energy project on three Sri Lankan islands suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Chinese Embassy in Colombo says that the hybrid energy project planned in three islands off Jaffna peninsula has been suspended due to security concern\u201d from a third party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tweet, the embassy said that the Hybrid Energy system to be built in three northern islands of Sri Lanka by the Chinese high-tech renewable energy company, Sino Soar Hybrid Technology, has been suspended.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said that the same company has now inked a contract with the Maldivian government to establish solar power plants at 12 of its islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sino Soar Hybrid Technology, being suspended to build Hybrid Energy system in 3 northern islands of Sri Lanka due to \u2018security concern\u2019 from a third party, has inked a contract with Maldivian gov\u2019t on 29 Nov to establish solar power plants at 12 islands in Maldives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 18, the Sri Lankan Cabinet approved a proposal to involve Sinosoar-Etechwin Joint Venture in China to install \u2018hybrid renewable energy systems\u2019 in Nainativu, Delft or Neduntheevu, and Analaitivu, located in the Palk Bay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it was later reported that the Indian government had raised objections to the proposed energy project in islands in the sea area close to the Indian coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Chinese Embassy in Colombo says that the hybrid energy project planned in three islands off Jaffna peninsula has been suspended due to security concern\u201d from a third party. In a tweet, the embassy said that the Hybrid Energy system to be built in three northern islands of Sri Lanka by the Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120810","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=120810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}