{"id":4416,"date":"2018-05-30T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T04:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/cebeuw\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2018-05-30T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T04:51:17","slug":"economynext-sri-lanka-hydro-power-generation-up-in-2018-amid-demand-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"EconomyNext: Sri Lanka hydro power generation up in 2018 amid demand growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT &#8211; Sri Lanka hydro&#8217;s power generation has bounced back in 2018 with rains returning amid a double digit pick up in overall demand, official data shows.<\/p>\n<p>Total power generation rose 10 percent from a year earlier to 2,480 GigaWatt hours in the first two months of 2019, with February generation up 11.0 percent, data from the central bank shows.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 power generation only grew 0.3 percent in the first two months.<\/p>\n<p>Hydro power generation at state-run Ceylon Electricity Board has soared 93 percent to 443 GigaWatt hours, in the first two months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Private sector non-conventional renewable energy, mostly mini-hydro and wind also rose 60 percent to 172 GigaWat hours.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel oil driven energy also grew 21 percent to 496 GWh, amid double digit demand growth and a drop in coal power to 938 GWh in the first two months of 2018.<br \/>\nPrivate sector thermal energy fell to 411 GWh from 473GWh.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2018 CEB&#8217;s hydro generation rose 75 percent to 208GWh data from the regulator, which does not include mini-hydro output showed. (Colombo\/May30\/2018)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economynext.com\/Sri_Lanka_hydro_power_generation_up_in_2018_amid_demand_growth-3-10757.html\">http:\/\/www.economynext.com\/Sri_Lanka_hydro_power_generation_up_in_2018_amid_demand_growth-3-10757.html<\/a><br \/>\n<script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT &#8211; Sri Lanka hydro&#8217;s power generation has bounced back in 2018 with rains returning amid a double digit pick up &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4416","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\/4416","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=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/4418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}