{"id":99324,"date":"2020-02-26T15:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T22:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99324"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:09:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T22:09:54","slug":"electric-power-shortage-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/26\/electric-power-shortage-a-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"ELECTRIC POWER SHORTAGE. A SOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tudor Wijenayake<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

1. The country is facing a shortage of electricity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. CEB is purchasing power from private suppliers paying excess of Rs 30 per unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. World’s technology has advanced for solar and wind producing electricity at less than Rs.3 per unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Our country is blessed with sun’s energy throughout the year and high winds day and night throughout the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Our solar and winds are capable of delivering our total electricity requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Local investors are prepared to supply our electricity needs at around Rs. 10 a unit within 3 years with own funding, if allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. But our Minister of Power and Energy is unaware of above facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. He is asking Cabinet approval for 2 more coal power plants at Norochchalai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. The President proposed to produce 75 percent of electricity with renewables by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. If local investors are allowed the target could be met by 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tudor Wijenayake 1. The country is facing a shortage of electricity 2. CEB is purchasing power from private suppliers paying excess of Rs 30 per unit. 3. World’s technology has advanced for solar and wind producing electricity at less than Rs.3 per unit. 4. Our country is blessed with sun’s energy throughout the year and high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99324","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=99324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}