CEB statement on connecting Sri Lanka and India grids indicates LIRNEasia has been heard


Posted on April 2, 2017  /  0 Comments

In our formal submission to the PUCSL in 2013, we highlighted the urgency of connecting the two grids. The case was made in public and private.

Obviously we welcome the statement below, despite the fact that “plans are underway” is a favorite weasel phrase of the Sri Lankan bureaucracy:

Plans are underway to connect Sri Lanka’s power grid with the Indian power grid to boost power generation within the next five years. “The Sri Lankan government is already having talks with the Indian government on this project,” according to Chairman of the Electricity Board (CEB) Anura Wijayapala.

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