{"id":2819,"date":"2016-10-01T19:09:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T13:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/cebeuw\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2016-10-01T19:09:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T13:39:33","slug":"sri-lanka-consumers-warned-on-impending-electric-shock-after-coal-plant-scrapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/?p=2819","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka consumers warned on impending &#8216;electric shock&#8217; after coal plant scrapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">ECONOMYNEXT &#8211; Sri Lanka&#8217;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.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">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.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">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.\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economynext.com\/Sri_Lanka_consumers_warned_on_impending__electric_shock__after_coal_plant_scrapping-3-6236-8.html\">READ MORE&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT &#8211; Sri Lanka&#8217;s power consumers, who are already paying high prices will have to shell out even more in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}