{"id":90334,"date":"2019-06-14T00:10:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T06:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90334"},"modified":"2019-06-13T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T00:03:20","slug":"solar-power-demise-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/14\/solar-power-demise-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Power demise in Sri Lanka?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Minister\nRavi Karunanayake and Secy. Batagoda of Power, Energy and Renewable Energy\nMinistry are driving the final nails on the coffin of Solar power in Sri Lanka.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are\nsending circulars to ban small roof-top Solar systems where the consumer can\nzero their electricity bills. Only mega systems will be approved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole\nworld is going towards renewable energy, and we are trying to go in the\nopposite direction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is\nbecause Ravi K. and Batagoda have signed power purchasing agreements with two\nTurkish owned Power barges, making millions for themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They say\nit&#8217;s for &#8220;Emergency Power&#8221;, but signed for 6 and 12 months, so the\ngravy train will continue for them. \n\nThere should be a\ndifferent Hell for destroyers like these\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Ravi Karunanayake and Secy. Batagoda of Power, Energy and Renewable Energy Ministry are driving the final nails on the coffin of Solar power in Sri Lanka. They are sending circulars to ban small roof-top Solar systems where the consumer can zero their electricity bills. Only mega systems will be approved. The whole world is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90334","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=90334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}