Three hour power cuts from today

Tuesday, 24 July 2012 01:41 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}

Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has announced that three hour power cuts would be imposed island wide for minimum 28 days beginning today.

The power will be interrupted for two hours and fifteen minutes in day time and forty-five minutes in the night time.

CEB has appointed a committee to decide the methodology of power cuts to be imposed due to the breakdown of two thermal power plants in Sri Lanka.

The committee has announced the schedule of power cuts by this evening.

The Ministry of Power and Energy says it aims to minimize the inconvenience to the public due to power cuts.

CEB chairman Dr. Wimaladharma Abeywickrema has said that they are taking immediate measures to work on the technical problems at the Kerawalapitiya and Norochcholai thermal power plants and expect to finalize work at the Kerawalapitiya power plant by July 28.

Sri Lanka’s hydropower reservoirs have not received sufficient rains to generate more power to compensate for the losses in thermal power.