Exclusive interview conducted with the Energy Expert, Dr. Tilak Siyambalapitiya regarding the current situation in the Power Sector.
All-Out War On LNG
Energy experts, the Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers Union (CEBEU), and other stakeholders have condemned the government’s move to go all-out for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) without adequate planning and expert opinion.
The CEBEU has stressed that they will not hesitate to take legal action if the proper legal process is not followed with regard to power sector policy and the generation plan.
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Power Plant Ball Games: Season 4 has begun
The year was 1999. The country was approaching a severe shortage of power generating capacity, with blackouts in the horizon. Engineers had previously planned to build major power plants to be operational by 1992, but their plans had been repeatedly thrown out of balance.
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Coal or LNG for Sampur power plant, SL yet to confirm: India
Despite environmental concerns raised by the Sri Lanka Government on the proposed Sampur coal power plant, Sri Lanka is yet to officially inform India whether it is for coal or Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) replacing the project completely, a senior Indian official said.
Mr. Singh also stressed that a decision to switch to an LNG based plant would not be feasible for a country like Sri Lanka, where the price of gas in the world market is volatile and may cause further delay of up to 10 years to complete the project.
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Will the lights go out
A looming power crisis is forcing the Ceylon Electricity Board to scramble in search of extraordinary measures to keep lights on in Sri Lanka at a time when the government has stalled the commissioning of new power plants.
Kamani Jayasekara, Deputy General Manager, Transmission and Generation Planning, Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) warned that a power crisis in 2018 and 2019 were imminent, certain and unstoppable. “Our peak demand on Wednesday (22) this week was 2,230 megawatts while the supply was 2,800 megawatts with a daily demand of 35 Gwh per day,” she said. “There will be an increase in demand, but as of now we cannot cater to it. By 2018 there’s going to be a deficit of 500 megawatts.”
Sri Lanka LNG moves undermine governance; energy security: Bellwether
ri Lanka’s power sector has been dogged by bad political decision-making that has pushed up costs and loaded Ceylon Electricity Board with expensive power plants that are outside the Long-Term Generation Plan. CEB planners from the 1980s advocated coal as a key source of cheap base load power as hydro resources ran out. Religious – both Buddhist and Catholic – and environmental lobbies delayed coal plants.
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