{"id":3050,"date":"2016-11-23T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T05:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/cebeuw\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2016-11-23T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T05:59:58","slug":"power-crisis-prompts-more-changes-clashes-over-lng-ideology-sri-lanka-to-try-its-hand-at-swiss-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/?p=3050","title":{"rendered":"POWER CRISIS PROMPTS MORE CHANGES, CLASHES OVER \u2018LNG IDEOLOGY\u2019 : SRI LANKA TO TRY ITS HAND AT \u2018SWISS CHALLENGE\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers\u2019 Union headed by Athula Wanniarachchi said, the government was fast tracking several projects, some of which have come through unsolicited bids and most of them not included in the Least Cost Long Term Generation Plan (LCLTGP), prepared by the CEB and approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), recently.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cAccording to the existing plan, conditionally approved by the PUCSL, we have proposed only one 300 mw plant in Kerawalapitiya and 170 mw plant in Hambantota. However, the government is pushing for an additional 300 mw combined cycle plant in Kerawalapitiya, 400 mw plant in Hambantota and an additional 500 mw LNG plant in Kerawalapitiya,\u201d Wanniarachchi said. \u201cWe don\u2019t need so many plants simultaneously. We don\u2019t even have transmission lines to Kerwalapitiya or LNG terminals. We cannot pretend to go grocery shopping for power plants,\u201d he said.\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayobserver.lk\/2016\/11\/06\/features\/power-crisis-prompts-more-changes-clashes-over-%E2%80%98lng-ideology%E2%80%99-sri-lanka-try-its\">READ MORE &#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers\u2019 Union headed by Athula Wanniarachchi said, the government was fast tracking several projects, some of which have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3050","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\/3050","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=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}