{"id":3559,"date":"2017-07-17T11:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T06:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/cebeuw\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2017-07-17T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T06:25:57","slug":"dont-be-fooled-by-obfuscations-dummies-guide-to-solar-wind-and-grid-power-prof-kumar-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/?p=3559","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t be fooled by obfuscations Dummies guide to solar, wind and grid power &#8211; Prof. Kumar David"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversies frequently erupt around renewable energy availability, prices and incorporation in the grid. Much is couched in language opaque to the newspaper reader. That\u2019s a pity because the citizen eventually foots the bill and suffers the power cuts. Since I have some slight familiarity with electricity I am drafting a primer to help layman decode experts and wag a finger at their obfuscations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;..The government foolishly dumped the proposed 500 MW coal station at Sampur and recently turned its back on a 1200 MW Japanese LNG proposal in the Western Province. Instead the Energy Ministry has opted for a 50 MW solar plant at Sampur. &#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ISLAND &#8211;\u00a0July 15, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Link:<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/index.php?page_cat=article-details&amp;page=article-details&amp;code_title=168309\">http:\/\/www.island.lk\/index.php?page_cat=article-details&amp;page=article-details&amp;code_title=168309<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversies frequently erupt around renewable energy availability, prices and incorporation in the grid. Much is couched in language opaque to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","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\/3559","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=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3561,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions\/3561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}