Sri Lanka Imposes Power Cuts After Island-Wide Failure

Colombo: Sri Lanka is scheduled to undergo a 90-minute power cut on Monday and Tuesday following a breakdown in a coal power plant. Ceylon Electricity Board, the state power entity, decided on Monday given the shortage of supply owing to the failure at the 900-megawatt Norochcholai coal power plant in the northwestern region. In a statement, the Ceylon Electricity Board said the 90-minute rationing will be in two slots between 3 pm and 9.30 pm in different areas on both days. The statement said Sunday's sudden power outage forced the operations at Lakvijaya power station to shut.

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Sri Lanka power cuts

Sri Lanka on Sunday experienced an island-wide power outage for nearly 6 hours due to a tripping of a Colombo suburb grid station when a monkey came in contact with it. It will be the first power rationing since August 2022, when the country plunged into an economic crisis, leading to a shortage of essential commodities, including fuel and power.

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Forex shortages caused 12-hour power cuts with long queues for fuel and essentials, which triggered street protests between April and July 2022, forcing then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and later resign. A USD 4 billion credit line from India helped Sri Lanka in recovery efforts.