{"id":153803,"date":"2025-12-22T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153803"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:37:18","slug":"sri-lankan-firm-emerges-as-lowest-bidder-for-fiji-mini-hydropower-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/22\/sri-lankan-firm-emerges-as-lowest-bidder-for-fiji-mini-hydropower-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan firm emerges as lowest bidder for Fiji mini hydropower project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Fiji Times<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan renewable energy company Vidullanka PLC has announced that it has emerged as the lowest-cost bidder for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to expand and upgrade a 100-kilowatt mini hydropower facility at Buca Village in Fiji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a disclosure to the Colombo Stock Exchange, the company said the determination was made on 19 December 2025, marking a significant step toward securing the overseas renewable energy contract, although the formal award is still pending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vidullanka said the development is price-sensitive, given its potential impact on future business activity and the company\u2019s longer-term market positioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The determination represents a material development for the company, subject to the formal award of the contract,\u201d Vidullanka said in its disclosure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company noted that further announcements will be made once the contract is formally awarded, material agreements are executed, or there are additional developments related to the tender process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vidullanka also cautioned that the potential award remains subject to technical evaluations, decisions by the evaluation committee, regulatory approvals, and the successful negotiation of final terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If confirmed, the project would add to Fiji\u2019s renewable energy infrastructure while expanding Vidullanka\u2019s footprint in the Pacific region, aligning with broader regional efforts to strengthen clean and sustainable energy generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Fiji Times Sri Lankan renewable energy company Vidullanka PLC has announced that it has emerged as the lowest-cost bidder for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to expand and upgrade a 100-kilowatt mini hydropower facility at Buca Village in Fiji. In a disclosure to the Colombo Stock Exchange, the company said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153803","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=153803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153804,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153803\/revisions\/153804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}