{"id":138853,"date":"2023-12-09T18:20:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T01:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138853"},"modified":"2023-12-09T18:20:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T01:20:52","slug":"lightning-strikes-cause-islandwide-blackout-ceb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/09\/lightning-strikes-cause-islandwide-blackout-ceb\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes cause islandwide blackout: CEB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Dec. 9 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The islandwide power blackout is due to multiple lightning strikes on several transformers and power stations, a Power and Energy Ministry official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Power and Energy Ministry&nbsp; said the islandwide power blackout is also due to a breakdown in the transmission line from Kotmale to Biyagama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said the power restoration process is expected to be completed within two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition a Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) confirmed the blackout is due to multiple lightning strikes on several transformers and hydropower stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The widespread power failure occurred at around 5 p.m. today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec. 9 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The islandwide power blackout is due to multiple lightning strikes on several transformers and power stations, a Power and Energy Ministry official said. Meanwhile, the Power and Energy Ministry&nbsp; said the islandwide power blackout is also due to a breakdown in the transmission line from [&hellip;]<\/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-138853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138853","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=138853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}