HAYLEYS GROUP BUILDING A WIND
POWER FARM TO PRODUCE ELECTRICITY FROM STRONG GUSTS OF INDIAN OCEAN
By Walter Jayawardhana
In its continued effort to produce “ green energy” non dependent
on fossilized imported oil Sri Lanka’s Hayley’s Group is currently
building a wind power farm on the Western coast of Sri Lanka, the company
has announced.
The company’s energy sector chief Mervyn de Silva said, “
A 10 MW wind power plant is being built at Nirmalapura at Kalpitiya
in Puttlam District now to augment Hayley’s already existing green
energy power generating plants like the Hydropower stations.”
De Silva said the farm of wind power generators will have seven turbines
when completed with each turbine producing 1.5 MW of power, producing
electricity utilizing the strong gusts of winds from the Indian ocean.
The fully approved plan is currently looking out for the most suitable
turbines according a to a company statement.
The company is already producing energy by its mini- hydro power stations
at many of its power centers in the island. The wind farm will generate
approximately 10MW of power making the total output of electrict power
generated by the company to 15 MW, the company said.
The wholly owned Bhagya Hydro Power station at Eheliyagoda by the company
is currently having 1 MW of power plant which generates 4 Giga Watt
hours of energy an year.
As a joint venture with Lanka Ventures, the company is also running
2.2 MW plant that generates 9.5 Giga Watts hours of energy a year in
Neluwa.
The company has also built another hydro-power plant , with Talawakele
Tea Estatates, a sister company of the Hayley’s Group.
In Radella , a Hayley’s plant of hydro-power of 200 Kilo Watt of
energy is supplying to the tea estate as well as to the national grid.
While Hayleys is completing a 1.1 MW plant at Somerset Estate another
one with a capacity of 800 KW is being built at Palmerston estate .
Both are expected to be operating by July.
Hayleys has also built a plant that generates electricity from the waste
heat of the activated carbon factories.
In the year ending March 2008 the energy section of the company has
had a return of 53 per cent of 709 million rupees of capital employed.
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