News

Sri Lanka will call for expressions of interest (EOI) in setting up nuclear power plants, its energy minister said on Friday, as it seeks cheap electricity to support its economic recovery.
Sri Lanka, a country that depends largely on hydropower to meet surging demand, recently commissioned a 300-MW thermal power plant in Kerawalapitiya, a region in the island nation’s west.
Sri Lanka is set to pay Rs.300-500 million to India’s Adani Company for initial costs sustained by it in terms of the two ...
Sri Lanka’s thermal power plants will begin to generate power from Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) hopefully within 18 months, and this will help reduce current electricity tariffs by 40-50%, Power and ...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- India on Tuesday signed an agreement to set up hybrid power projects on northern Sri Lankan islands in a deal seen as a strategic victory in its competition with China for ...
The agreements come amid Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis in recent memory with shortages of medicine, fuel, and milk power and daily power outages lasting for hours. Sri Lanka has approached ...
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over the ...
Sri Lanka will suffer no more power cuts after March 5, the president's office said in a statement on Wednesday, following days of outages caused by a lack of funds to buy enough fuel to fire ...
Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid ... Sunday’s disruption also affected the island’s only 900 MW coal fired power plant, ...
Sri Lanka's president suspended Parliament and deployed troops ... Troops were sent to the state television and radio stations and to a main power plant after the government announced that ...
Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to ... Sunday's disruption also affected the island's only 900 MW coal fired power plant, ...