There are many media articles about why we don’t want coal and an increasing number of “experts” (environmentalists, politicians, journalists – just about everybody) who are preaching about the evils of coal. Why then does the power related authorities and the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) still want to go ahead with coal power – keep the existing coal power plant at Norochcholai and indeed add more like it e.g. Sampur? A legitimate question that needs to be answered and it is  high time to do it.

This article aims to analyse the pros and cons of the popular alternatives to coal in the Sri Lankan perspective. READ MORE…

Best Wishes from CEBEU for the Year 2017….

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is to urgently lease purchase power at a cost of nearly Rs. 35 per unit for the next six months on an emergency basis at a total cost of Rs. 8 billion, the Daily Mirror learns. The CEB has sought the approval from the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) to lease purchase a 65 MWs of power for six months considering the prevailing power situation in the country. READ MORE…

ECONOMYNEXT:  Sri Lankans have been warned to conserve water and electricity as the country braces for perhaps the worst drought since the early 1970s, with crop output down and possible shortages of drinking water, officials said. Disaster Management Minister Anura Yapa said the government was gearing up to deal with drought relief including food and water but early conservation efforts could help mitigate the coming crisis. READ MORE …

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If the readers recall, these columns explained in September 2015, that not a single power plant was under construction, and that the Sampur power plant was badly behind schedule. Perhaps, a right thinking Govt would take note of such assessments, and the numerous warnings and reports circulating in the energy bureaucracy since 2012 that a crisis is approaching, and kick CEB on the back, to implement new projects fast, of which the corner stone will be the Sampur projects. Not one but two power plants in Sampur were on the drawing boards. READ MORE …

The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) in its latest report stressed that the hydro dispatch level for power generation must to be kept below the average level, to ensure the availability of hydro reservoirs until end of April 2017. READ MORE …

Dr Tilak Siyambalapitiya, energy expert and former Chief Engineer at the CEB, says that the country will have to face severe power cuts by 2018.

In an opinion piece for the Divaina newspaper, the energy expert says that politicians and other parties have always wreaked havoc with the long term plans of the CEB. READ MORE…

The Ceylon Electricity Board currently pays as much as US¢16/kWh as feed-in tariff to solar power project developers. The lowest tariff bid in neighboring India is around US¢6.0/kWh while the lowest tariff bid in the world is around US¢2.0/kWh. READ MORE…

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The Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers (CEBEU) say constructing power plants and transmission line requires long term planning.

“Going beyond such plans would end up in repercussions, where it is not easy to come out of the mess,” CEBEU Chief Athula Wanniarachchi told The Sunday Leader. READ MORE …

The Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers Union (CEBEU) has warned Power and Renewable Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya that if a competitive bidding process is not carried out on non-competitive solar power, they would resort to trade union action.

“We had informed him about the impact on electricity consumers due to non-competitive Solar Power. We understand that the government is in the process of establishing Solar PV power plants through the private sector as part of its Non-Conventional Renewable Energy (NCRE) drive.  CEBEU has been always supportive of implementing NCRE in the country to the optimum and reasonable limits.” READ MORE …

The plants are being proposed on the grounds that they are needed to negate the impact from a potential 2018/19 power crisis, but the union claims they are being pushed by various parties with vested interests.

Several proposed power plants have been cited by the CEBEU as alleged unsolicited proposals. One example is a 400MW power plant in Hambantota proposed by the China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC), the same company that built the Lakvijaya coal power plant in Norochcholai. The LNG plant is to be later expanded to 1000MW. The plant is due to be built inside the proposed Hambantota industrial zone that China is due to establish. READ MORE …

Wednesday 24th November 2016

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