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Work to rule protest by CEB Engineers -DailyMirror
The Engineers of Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) have decided to engage in a work to rule trade union action within two weeks.
The Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers Union Saumya Kumarawadu said their intended trade union action was decided upon the non-responsiveness of the CEB with regard to their proposals on executing long-term power generation plants and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) power generation plants.
CEB authorities show a lethargic attitude to install long-term power generation plant but are interested in plans to buy electricity from profiteering private companies and gain commissions, he alleged.
He further said a letter has also been sent by the union to President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe stressing the need of stipulating an LNG power plan suitable for the country and preparing an appropriate procedure to be adapted in purchasing electricity thus generated. (Dayaseeli Liyanage)
2018-04-08
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විදුලි වර්ජනයකුත් අත ළඟ – Mawbima
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විදුලි අර්බුදයක් – ජල විදුලි නිෂ්පාදනය සියයට 15 ට බසී – Hiru News
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The Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy said that hydropower generation has become a challenge due to the prevailing dry weather conditions.
Speaking to our news team, its media spokesman, Sulakshana Jayawardena said that water levels in the six main reservoirs used for the generation of hydropower including Kotmale and Castlereigh, have dropped to 50%.
He said that hydropower generation has declined to 15%, as a result.
President of the Ceylon Electricity Board’s Engineers’ Union, Saumya Kumarawadu said that the lack of a proper plan has resulted in high dependency on hydropower.
The media spokesman of the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy, Sulakshana Jayawardena said that the construction of a new thermal power plant under the long-term power generation plan will be delayed by about another year due to delays in the tender process.
However, President of the CEB Engineers’ Union, Saumya Kumarawadu said that power cuts are unavoidable in future due to this situation.
Public Lecture Series by Tr and Gen Planning Branch of CEB
Transmission and Generation Planning Branch of CEB has recently taken an initiative to hold a public lecture series on ” Present status and the Future of Sri Lankan Power System”. The prime objective of the these lectures are to raise the general awareness among the engineering fraternity on the latest developments, planning process and the future of Sri Lankan power system. This is conducted with the aid of Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers Union with the intention of updating and enhancing the knowledge on the topic among engineering community while clarifying common misconceptions.
The first lecture was conducted for the National Agenda Committee of The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce on 5th Dec 2017.
The second lecture of the series was held at IESL with nearly 100 participants on 16 Jan 2018.
The third lecture was held at the University of Moratuwa on 22 Feb 2018 with participation of students and acedemics.
Another two such lectures have already been planned to be held at the department of Electrical Engineering, University of Peradeniya and University Ruhuna of within the March,2018.
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CEB strike underway, strikers convened to Colombo – Hiru News
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CEB strike underway, strikers convened to Colombo
The Joint Trade Union Federation says that it has invited all the employees of Ceylon Electricity Board who are on strike to head to Colombo for a demonstration.
The convener of the Federation, Ranjan Jayalal told our news team that an indefinite strike was launched this morning (Jan. 18).
The CEB headquarters was surrounded by workers last night alleging that the management has increased the salaries only of the administrative staff.
Later, CEB chairman, W. B. Ganegala was held hostage in his office and police had to intervene to rescue the chairman.
The CEB workers launched the strike this morning accusing that they were assaulted during last night’s demonstration.
Meanwhile, chairman of the Electricity Engineers’ Association, Saumaya Kumarawadu said that CEB workers had been recently awarded a salary increment of 25%.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy, Sulakshana Jayawardana said that 90% of CEB workers have reported to work today despite the ongoing strike.
http://www.hirunews.lk/181377/ceb-strike-underway-strikers-convened-to-colombo
Asian Development Bank spells out reasons for 2015-2016 country-wide blackout
The Asian Development Bank has set out a series of reasons that attributed to country-wide black-outs within a span of 07 months from 2015 to 2016.
According to the Asian Development Bank, poor operation of the protection system, lack of operational flexibility and bottlenecks in the transmission system attributed to the country-wide blackouts.
The Asian Development Bank listed under-investment in the transmission and medium voltage network and protection system resulting from high government debt to GDP ratio and poor financial status of the Ceylon Electricity Board as other reasons for higher generation costs.
The ADB confirmed in an announcement that it will grant 1.5 million USD to Sri Lanka to hire two consulting firms to study and improve the soundness of the island’s power transmission system which has suffered blackouts owing to poor reliability.
This project will start in March 2018 and be completed by February 2019
Asian Development Bank spells out reasons for 2015-2016 country-wide blackout
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FSRU Plant Govt, Japan and India in joint venture Officials decry move
By Niranjala Ariyawansha
Ceylon Today
The Government has decided to go for a joint venture with India and Japan towards the setting up of a Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU), which would convert diesel plants to LNG, for a sum of US $300 million, despite opposition from top officials.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Management (CCEM), which has forwarded this proposal, has not included any environment or final feasibility report with it.
With the country being devoid of any energy plan or policy, it would be dangerous to release the country’s power sector in an ad hoc manner to overseas buyers, these officials charged.
Sources said the Government has decided to implement this joint venture, although Australia had earlier submitted a proposal to set up an FSRU for half of that sum.
Also, South Korea, under an agreement that Sri Lanka has to purchase LNG from Seoul for over a 25-year period, had even consented to set up a FRSU free-of-charge.
However, having put aside the proposals from South Korea and Australia, the Government is now preparing to opt for the joint venture by the end of this month with the four firms that are to be submitted by the three countries, a top official from a Ministry told Ceylon Today.
The firms are Sri Lanka Gas Company, which comes under the Treasury, Petromat Oil & Gas Equipment (Pvt) Ltd of India and Sojitz & Mitsubishi for Japan are those companies.
As per the joint venture, these firms are set to import gas to Colombo over a 20-year period.
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) will function as a Single Credible Entity towards the gas imports.
According to this plan, the lowest percentage of shares (15) will be left to Sri Lanka, 47.5 per cent will go to India, while 37.5 shares will be given to Japan.
A top official stated that they had to fight tooth and nail to hold on to the 15 per cent.
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CPC) has already expressed opposition to this joint venture. Ministers Ranjith Siyambalapituya and Dr. Sarath Amunugama having submitted a Cabinet Paper a fortnight ago, noted that they have decided to import gas in a bid to convert the diesel plants owned by the CEB to LNG.
Furthermore it has also been mentioned in the agreement that Colombo will be going for a joint venture with New Delhi regarding the China Bay Oil Tank Farm in Trincomalee.
The proposal which was submitted to the Cabinet, prior to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to India in April last year, had also been ratified.
“The CCEM is taking decisions regarding the country. They think that Government officials, by forwarding various circulars, are placing burdens on the country’s development drive. But we do that not with the aim of scuttling development programmes but towards the betterment of the country. These circulars have been made to prevent both politicians and their henchmen from damaging the country by taking arbitrary decisions. However, these decisions can only help to stall the forward march of the country,” a top official said.
He further charged that behind such unsolicited proposals, invariably there are commissions.
The CPC, the Engineers Union of the CEB (CEBEU) and many other trade unions have already protested to this proposal.
CEBEU Committee Member Athula Wanniarachchi said: “There is no energy plan to the country. Instead there is only a business plan. The country’s energy plan is being designed according to the business plan of their friends and kith and kin,” he charged.
The FSRU is set to be established at the Colombo Port. The Convener of the CPC Trade Union Collective Janaka Rajakaruna alleged that due to the threat posed by the setting up of FSRU in a commercial port, the rest of the shipping firms would automatically seek to increase insurance charges.
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Stakeholders perturbed over delay in awarding bid for proposed Kerawalapitiya – II power project
January 13, 2018, 7:51 pm The Island
Energy sector stakeholders last week expressed concern over the inordinate delay in awarding the bid for the proposed multi-billion rupee 300MW Kerawalapitiya – II Power Plant.
Proposals were opened in April 2017 and though eight months have lapsed, there is still no forward movement, they said. “The fast track project has become an off track one, and the delay has already resulted in a loss of Rs. 12.4 billion”.
Earlier, fears were expressed that the proposed power project was to be awarded to a foreign company, which could have translated into a loss of a staggering Rs. 204 billion as bidders offering more competitive tariffs were apparently sidelined.
The matter was brought to the notice of the President and the Prime Minister, they said, as, if the bid was pushed through, the loss would have been much bigger than the bond scam.
Senior CEB engineers also expressed their reservations about awarding the bid to the Korean company as the margin between the lowest and second lowest bidders worked out to a stupendous Rs. 34 billion, they said
Sri Lanka trying to outsource LNG purchases to one company for 20-years: report
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s current administration is attempting to give a deal to purchase up to a million tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year for 20 years to state-run Ceylon Electricity Board in the guise of building an LNG terminal, a media report said.
An unsolicited bid by SK E&S Company, which is backed by the government of Korea had been first submitted to President Maithripala Sirisena, Sri Lanka’s The Sunday Times newspaper reported.
Sirisena had already shot down a plan to build a 500MW coal plant which would have given cheaper power to the country, in place of building more expensive LNG plants. LNG plants however are cleaner.
A joint memo has been put to the cabinet of ministers by Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya and Special Assignments Minister Sarath Amunugama to get the state-run Ceylon Electricity Board to tender the project on a ‘Swiss Challenge’ concept.
A ‘Swiss Challenge’ will allows another company to better the proposal.
SK E&S Company was offering to supply one million tonnes of LNG on a ‘take or pay’ basis if where the buyer has to pay a penalty if the buyer not accept a shipment, the news report said.
The company will build its own terminal ‘free of charge’ if it gets the contract to supply LNG. But the government will also have to build pipelines for the company.
The price of the LNG, or what premium to what international benchmark was not given in the report. The company has sought a purchase and supply agreement from mid-2020 to March 31, 2040.
Sri Lanka’s government has problems in procurement allegedly paying above market prices. The ousted Rajapaksa administration was faulted for setting up Lanka Coal, which carried out coal procurement outside the purview of the CEB.
Critics also allege hat the administration bought Litro Gas, the country’s largest cooking gas distributor from Shell for political appointees to make money off inflated LPG tenders.
The CEB was originally expected to build its own terminal to unload LNG – or call bids for a private or floating plant which will then charge a throughput fee for each tonne unloaded.
A private operator is expected to build a dual fuel 300MW combined cycle power plant for the CEB, and existing combined cycles could also potentially be converted to run on LNG at an unknown cost.
The proposal to cabinet indicates LNG procurements for plants of up to 1000MW, the report said.
The report said there were several other proposals including an Indian Japan consortium which may be asked to join the ‘Swill Challenge’ process.
Sri Lanka now has several private power plants which were built on competitive tender based on the efficiency of generation (heat rate) with the CEB supplying fuel except for the LakVijaya plant by Lanka Transformers group which was negotiated without a guaranteed heat rate.
There has been concern among energy analysts that several LNG plants have been proposed not on the heat rate but on fuel procurement basis. Sri Lanka does not yet have daily auctions for energy procurement. (Colombo/Jan13/2018)