ECONOMYNEXT – Forward of Sri Lanka’s lengthy weekend, which included a Christian and Buddhist vacation, the Minister of Energy and Vitality has issued directions warning of energy outages.
“Directions have been given to CEB to droop all deliberate energy cuts for non-essential upkeep work on weekends and in the course of the vacation interval to make sure uninterrupted energy provide is maintained,” Kanchana Wijesekera mentioned on X (twitter).
“New pointers can be issued by GM CEB, according to worldwide benchmarks on deliberate energy outages for upkeep work.”
The ministry made this determination after analyzing complaints from electrical energy shoppers about frequent energy cuts attributable to upkeep work, Wijesekera mentioned.
“The ministry has additionally noticed pointless scheduled energy outages for upkeep throughout weekends, costing CEB giant sums in accrued funds.”
Two Saturdays in the past, Sri Lanka suffered an influence outage because the state-run CEB community was hit by a back-to-back blackout attributable to the failure of the Kothmale-Biyagama transmission line.
Though CEB spokesperson Noel Priyantha assured on the time that energy could be restored inside hours, some components of the island remained in darkness till the early hours.
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