{"id":138906,"date":"2023-12-12T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138906"},"modified":"2023-12-12T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:58:06","slug":"new-committee-to-expedite-decision-making-for-implementation-of-renewable-energy-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/12\/new-committee-to-expedite-decision-making-for-implementation-of-renewable-energy-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"New committee to expedite decision-making for implementation of renewable energy projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lankan government has decided to appoint a combined standing committee to make decisions concerning renewable energy projects and monitor whether the decisions are efficiently and promptly implemented by relevant institutions.<br>\u00a0<br>Cabinet of Ministers green-lighted this resolution on Monday (Dec.11), after identifying the need to accelerate the implementation of renewable energy projects, in order to meet the Nationally Determined Contribution targets by 2030.<br>\u00a0<br>On November 20, the Cabinet of Ministers decided that a new system should be introduced for the speedy implementation of renewable energy projects, taking into account the time it takes to implement such projects following the existing methods and the potential difficulties that interested investors have to face while working according to those methods.<br>\u00a0<br>Accordingly, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by the Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera to appoint a combined standing committee representing the following institutions for this purpose:<br>\u00a0<br>\u2022 Presidential Secretariat (Chairman of the Committee)<br>\u2022 Prime Minister\u2019s Office<br>\u2022 Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policies<br>\u2022 Ministry of Investment Promotions<br>\u2022 Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation<br>\u2022 Ministry of Environment<br>\u2022 Ministry of Tourism and Lands<br>\u2022 Ministry of Industries<br>\u2022 Ministry of Power and Energy<br>\u2022 Ministry of Irrigation<br>\u2022 Ministry of Water Supply and Estate Infrastructure Development<br>\u2022 Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority<br>\u2022 Ceylon Electricity Board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lankan government has decided to appoint a combined standing committee to make decisions concerning renewable energy projects and monitor whether the decisions are efficiently and promptly implemented by relevant institutions.\u00a0Cabinet of Ministers green-lighted this resolution on Monday (Dec.11), after identifying the need to accelerate the implementation of renewable energy projects, in [&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-138906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138906","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=138906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}