{"id":137795,"date":"2023-10-20T17:34:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T00:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=137795"},"modified":"2023-10-20T17:34:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T00:34:49","slug":"sri-lanka-approves-18-electricity-tariff-hike-for-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/10\/20\/sri-lanka-approves-18-electricity-tariff-hike-for-households\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka approves 18% electricity tariff hike for households"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Business Recorder<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>COLOMBO: Sri Lanka\u2019s power regulator has approved an 18% electricity tariff hike for households in the country, which will be effective from Friday, the government said in a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40268950\">Sri Lanka shares end higher on financials boost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overall hike approved on the day ranged from 18% to 24%, the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Business Recorder COLOMBO: Sri Lanka\u2019s power regulator has approved an 18% electricity tariff hike for households in the country, which will be effective from Friday, the government said in a statement. Sri Lanka shares end higher on financials boost The overall hike approved on the day ranged from 18% to 24%, the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137795","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=137795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}