Seminar on “Future of Sri Lankan Power & Energy Sector” organized by The Organisation of Professional Associations of Sri Lanka Jointly with the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka scheduled on May 08, 2018 @ 6:00 PM, Auditorium of OPA.
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Economynext: Sri Lanka’s coal power bounty has ended; costs shooting up: Union
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s power generation costs are rapidly outpacing selling prices and a bounty from a 900 MegaWatt coal plant had now run out, and there is no relief on the horizon, executives at the island’s power utility warned.
“The last 300 Mega Watt plant was built in Norochcholai in 2014,” Saumya Kumarawadu, President of the Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers Union said.
“After that no low cost power plant has been built. So costs can only go up.”
Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena cancelled a 500 MW coal plant in Sampur in Trincomalee in 2015 where land was cleared and the plant was on the verge of being tendered after delays for which the CEB itself was responsible.
Coal Bounty
With the help of the coal plant CEB’s average cost per unit sold plunged from 23.6 rupees a kilowatt hour (unit) in 2012 to 15.07 rupees a unit in 2015.
“This is how a 25 percent reduction in power prices was given in 2015 for the first time in the history,” Manawadu said.
“But now all new plants since then are producing power at higher prices. So costs can only go up.”
Average costs per unit sold (which includes all overheads of the CEB) had gone up to 18.09 rupees a unit in 2016 and 21.32 rupees in 2017 with higher cost liquid fuel plants being operated.
But the average selling price is now much lower. In 2017, the average selling cost was estimated at 17.54 rupees.
“The average selling cost is now lower than the generation cost,” Manawadu said. “That is why last year the CEB made a 45 billion rupee loss.”
The busting of the rupee by the central bank in a monetary debacle in 2015 and 2016 and preventing the rupee appreciating in 2017 as credit fell, is also inflating the costs of fuel.
When there is a drought, cheap hydropower also falls, adding to the problem.
Sri Lanka avoided power cuts during a drought with the help of the Chinese coal plants, which analysts say may be the highest return physical investment made by Sri Lanka since the Mahaweli hydro power complex.
The Chinese plants have come with some avoidable pollution problems because environmental and religious lobbies blocked a cleaner Japanese funded coal plant originally specified by the CEB.
In 2014 the coal plants produced 3,202 GWh out of a total of 12,357 generated with CEB hydros contributing 3,632.
In 2015 the coal plants produced 4,443 GWh as 13,090 GWh was produced to meet expanding demand with hydro also rising to 4,904GWh, helping CEB finances.
CEB fuel oil power fell from 1,696 GWh to 1,051. Private power fell to 2,690 GWh from 3,882 GWh
In 2016 the coal plants produced 5,047 GWh of energy, while hydro fell to 3,481 and the CEB had to produce 14,149 GWh of energy for the year.
In 2017 coal energy rose a little to 5,103 GWh as total generation rose to 14,671 GWh. Coal plants are now operating at near full capacity with the night load also picking up.
In 2017 CEB hydro generation fell to 3,059 GWh.
CEB’s fuel oil production went up to 2,297 GWh in 2016 and to 2,529 to cope with rising demand.
Private sector power purchases rose to 3,322 GWh in 2016 and to 3,978 GWh in 2017.
“The benefit the country got from coal plants are now over,” says Manawadu. “Now costs can only go up.”
Costs
The savings that a single 300MW coal plant can make runs into tens of billions of rupees a year.
Unlike hydro plants, which operate about 30 percent of the time in a given year which is called plant factor and even less in drought years, a thermal plant can operate about 60 to 80 percent of the time available in a year.
All CEB’s major hydro plants build since inception generated only 3,059 billion units of electricity in 2017. But the three coals plants with 900MW generated 5,103 billion units of energy
CEB engineers union says the utility’s hydro power costs are estimated at about 2.40 rupees per unit and coal at about 7.90 rupees a unit to produce.
Read full article: http://www.economynext.com/Sri_Lanka_s_coal_power_bounty_has_ended;_costs_shooting_up__Union-3-10422-8.html
විදුලි ඉංජිනේරුවන් මැයි 08 වැනිදා සිට අකුරට වැඩ – Hiru News
CEB engineers to “Work-to-rule”
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CEB engineers to “Work-to-rule”
The engineers’ union of Ceylon Electricity Board says they will launch a “Work-to-rule” campaign from 8th of May.
The Union which had put forward several demands seeking solutions had earlier planned to launch the “work-to-rule” campaign with effect from this Friday.
However, the action has been postponed to 8th of May to avoid the Vesak Week.
However, Power and Renewable Energy Ministry in a statement said yesterday that the CEB engineers’ union had decided to postpone their action after having a discussion with Minister, Ranjith Siyambalapitiya.
The Ministry further said that a Cabinet paper has already prepared with regard to the issues of the engineers.
‘Set up low-cost power plant or face disaster’ CEB engineers to launch work-to-rule campaign – The Island
By Rathindra Kuruwita
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) was expected to incur a loss of Rs 50 billion this year, and the situation would continue for the next six to seven years unless a major low cost (coal-fired) power plant was set up, CEB Engineers’ Union President Saumya Kumarawadu said yesterday.
Kumarawadu said his union would launch a work-to-rule campaign from 08 May as it had failed in its efforts to educate the government officials on the situation and convince them of the need to adopt remedial measures as a national priority.
‘After the Norachcholai Power Plant was built in 2014, the generation cost of one unit of electricity dropped to Rs. 15.07 and the government was able to reduce the electricity bill by 25%. However, Kumarawadu said, since then no low cost thermal power plants had been added to the system, although each year the demand went up by 200 MWS. The cost of one unit of electricity had gone up to Rs 21.32 in 2017. The CEB lost Rs 45 billion that year.”The 15-year delay in commissioning the Norachcholei Power Plant had cost the country Rs. 900 billion and the scrapping of the Sampur Coal Power Plant, at the last moment, had already cost Sri Lanka Rs. 200 billion, Kumarawadu said. The reason for the colossal losses was that the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) had scrapped the proposed coal-fired power plants from the CEB’s Least Cost Power Generation Expansion Plan (LCLTGEP) 2018- 2037, he added.
“They have discarded our proposals to allow private investors to establish high-cost power plants which will upset the balance we seek in the country’s energy mix,” Kumarawadu said.
The engineers’ union had first decided to start the work-to-rule campaign on April 20, but the launch of the protest had been delayed in view of Vesak, Kumarawadu said. “We want the government to meet four demands. We want the government to approve our LCLTGEP, allocate land and other facilities necessary for the construction low cost coal power plants, devise a proper mechanism to provide a government subsidy for the CEB for providing electricity to customers at a subsidized price and amend the Sri Lanka Electricity Act No 20 of 2009 to minimise ‘unnecessary impediments to the smooth function of CEB.
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CEB engineers postpone work-to-rule campaign -Times
The Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers’ Union (CEBEU) say they will launch a work-to-rule campaign from May 8. The trade union action was initially scheduled to be launched this Friday (20). However, the union postponed the strike by two weeks following discussions with Power and Renewable Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya and Ministry officials yesterday.
The union had earlier warned that such a work-to-rule campaign could cause intermittent power failures and even power cuts throughout the island.
The engineers’ trade union action is being launched over what it says is failure on the part of the Government to resolve a dispute between the CEB and the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), the power sector regulator, over approving the country’s Least Cost Power Generation Expansion Plan (LCLTGEP). The CEBEU wants the Government to intervene and approve the plan favoured by the CEB.
Last year, the PUCSL approved a plan which does not contain any coal power plants. The CEBEU has maintained that the PUCSL had amended the plan submitted by the CEB and approved its own version, which the union claims is illegal. The regulator denies the charge.
Meanwhile, issuing a statement, the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy said Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya is committed to providing a solution to the issue and some positive steps had already been taken.
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/article/1042273/ceb-engineers-postpone-work-to-rule-campaign
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Power plant construction delays cost Rs 26B in 2017 – Ceylon Today
Sri Lanka’s cost of emergency power increased by 62% year-on-year in 2017 to Rs 26,305 million, due to delays in implementing power plants as mentioned in the least-cost long term generation plan, a top power sector official told Ceylon FT.
The cost of emergency power purchases stood at Rs 319 million in 2015 and Rs 16,263 million in 2016 respectively.
The electricity sector regulator, the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) – who holds the legal power to amend and approve the Ceylon Electricity Board’s generation plan – gave its consent for the latest least-cost long-term generation plan for 2018-2037 on 19 July 2017.
The PUCSL has communicated a number of times to the Ceylon Electricity Board, the State-owned electricity generator and distributor, to implement the approved generation plan to ensure a continuous electricity supply to Sri Lanka, which CEB has failed to do. This has led to buying electricity from private suppliers, ultimately paid for by taxpayers, adding another burden to their shoulders.
The Ministry of Power and Energy last week decided to extend the purchasing of expensive thermal power, as the country had four seasons of back-to-back dry spells that exhausted reservoirs. The Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Ace Power Embilipitiya (Pvt) Limited, which is a fully-owned subsidiary of the Aitken Spence group that owns a 100MW thermal power plant, initially lapsed in 2015.
CEB was questioned by the regulator for its rationale to buy high-cost thermal power as a contingency, as this would add huge costs to the nation.
However, the Government said, “Since the power plants constructed presently are due for completion between 2019 and 2022, the need has arisen for a temporary programme to get electricity until 2020.”
The Government awarded two tenders in March to Aggreko International Projects Limited and a Hayleys Group energy producer under emergency power deals to purchase 100MW of power.
The total expected financial loss due to implementation delays of 2018-2020 plant schedule in the long-term generation expansion plan is Rs 50.62 billion. Financial losses due further delays beyond what is forecasted will cost Sri Lanka Rs 3.43 billion each month, PUCSL said in its report, ‘Financial Impact of Delay in Implementation of Power Plants’.
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