CEB engineers say govt living in dream land

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) would lose more than Rs. 25 billion next year if it continued to buy electricity from high cost thermal power produced with diesel and renewable energy from the private sector without going for coal – fired power plant at Sampur, CEB engineers said yesterday.

President of the CEB Engineers Union Athula Wanniarachchi said the government would have to increase electricity tariff and other taxes or obtain loans to meet the additional cost. READ MORE . . .

මවා පෙන්වන තරම් ගල්අඟුරු මිනිසාට සහ පරිසරයට හතුරෙක් නොවේ

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Danger Electric Shock Ahead…!!!

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Sri Lanka consumers warned on impending ‘electric shock’ after coal plant scrapping

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s power consumers, who are already paying high prices will have to shell out even more in the future, after a cheap coal plant which was about to be built was scrapped, engineers at state-run Ceylon Electricity Board has warned.

CEB is now generating coal power at about 4.36 rupees a unit, and the next cheapest source of thermal power from residual oil costs about 17.80 rupees a unit, CEB Engineers Union said, making a gap of about 13.44 rupees.

In August 2016 Sri Lanka is generated about 48 percent of total energy or 566 million units of electricity (GigaWatthours) from coal creating a potential saving of about 7,600 billion rupees a month on a conservative estimate. READ MORE…

CEBEU Press Conference 2016-09-29 (Videos)


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‘Cronies of govt. secure thermal power contracts’

We can construct 24 expressways like Katunayake and Colombo, eight expressways like Southern expressway with the amount the government lost due to the delay in building NorachcholaiREAD MORE …

CEBEU Press Conference 2016-09-29 (Photos)


Sri Lanka Prepares for Possible Power Shortage by 2018 !!!!

Sri Lanka Prepares for Possible Power Shortage by 2018. To read more please CLICK on the image below…

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Costly short-circuit at Sampur

Criticism is an opportunity for correction; Britain just revoked its stop order on the 3200MW, GBP 18 billion, Hinckley Point C nuclear power station. It will be tougher in Lanka due to multiple pressures, some reasonable, some naïve, others venal. The government has no clue what it is doing and is in a muddle. Following last week’s piece on principles of planning I will devote this one to current concerns; next week’s finale will be on sector restructuring. READ MORE…

SAMPUR DRAMA

A senior Indian official attached to the TPCL says that just for the research and study purposes of the Sampur coal plant they have spent about USD 5 Million and that has gone down the drain.

Despite all options to install the LNG Plant is also assured to be given to India, will the country survive on LNG which is 30 percent per unit more compared to coal power per unit is yet to be experienced.

According to TPC a gas terminal in Sampur will roughly cost USD 150 TO 200 Million for 1,000 tons of gas per annum and also to install a gas terminal it would roughly take another five years. To install the LNG power station, it would also take another two years it was revealed. TO READ MORE CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW>>>

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Fifty percent of electricity today, comes from Norochcholai

Nobody wanted the power plant in Norochcholai except the power system planners who were determined to ensure the country got its electricity at the lowest possible cost. With their knowledge of what exactly was happening with power generation in other countries, they knew the only way to rescue the power sector from the financial mess and recurring power cuts, was to build strong, large capacity, cheaper power plants. Norochcholai was the first such power plant.  READ MORE…

සාම්පූර් බලාගාරය අහිමිවීමෙන් විදුලිය සැපයීමේ අවදානමක්!!!!

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Indian reaction keenly awaited

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Your electricity bill in 2020

Sunday, September 18, 2016

By August 2016, electricity sales growth recorded was 9.6 per cent (compared with the first eight months of 2015), the highest since 2010. So there is no relief on the demand front, to call for relief, now that Sampur power plant is delayed, suspended or cancelled. If the Sampur project went ahead, with essential additional environmental safeguards and technical/contractual amendments, relief would have come by 2020. READ MORE….

CEB engineers’ union paints dark picture for country’s power sector

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Ad hoc decisions with regard to the country’s power sector will cost the Government billions of rupees and the burden will have to be borne by the consumers, the Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers’ Union (CEBEU) warned.

Referring to the decision to scrap the Indian funded coal power plant in Sampur, CEBEU President Athula Wanniarachchi claimed a lack of clear direction by the Government, coupled with apparent disregard for the advice of professionals, would hurtle the country towards a power crisis that it would not be able to overcome without pumping enormous funds to run and maintain costly diesel power plants.

This would mean consumers would have to endure rising electricity tariffs, he added.

He further said the decision was liable to cost the Government an additional Rs.170 billion over four years. The estimate had been made on the assumption that it would take at least four years for the proposed two combined cycle power plants at Kerawalapitiya (300 Megawatt) and Hambantota (170 Megawatt) to be converted from diesel to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). These plants are needed to meet a power crisis expected to hit the country in 2018-2019. READ MORE…

India still unaware

2016-09-14

India is yet to be officially notified of Sri Lanka’s new development – shelving of the Sampur Coal Power Plant Project, they undertook a long time ago after signing several MoUs pertaining to it. After the Supreme Court was informed yesterday, by the Attorney General, that the Ministry of Power and Energy will shelve the proposed coal power plant, that was offered to India a long time ago, Esha Srivastava, Spokesperson for the Indian High Commission, told Ceylon Today “there were several discussions held on the matter and still there could be more discussions held on it.” READ MORE…

N’CHOLAI ECO LICENCE WITHHELD

The renewal of the Environmental Protection License (EPL) for the Lak Vijaya Power Plant in Norochcholai for this year has been delayed following the Central Environment Authority (CEA) taking over the assessments from the North Western Environment Protection Authority due to environmental concerns, the Sunday Observer reliably learns. READ MORE….