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The Ministry of Power and Energy [1] (Sinhala: විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්යාංශය; Tamil: மின்சக்தி மற்றும் வலுசக்தி அமைச்சு) is a cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka responsible for power and renewable energy. The ...
Ministry of Power and Energy. Minister of Power and Energy; Ministry of Environment. Minister of Environment; Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs. Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs; Ministry of Irrigation. Minister of Irrigation; Ministry of Labour and Foreign Employment. Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment; Ministry of Public Security
Punya Sri Kumara Jayakody (පුණ්ය ශ්රී කුමාර ජයකොඩි ) is a Sri Lankan politician and an engineer, who has served as the Minister of Energy of the Government of Sri Lanka since November 2024.
Sri Lanka experienced an island-wide power outage for several hours Saturday after a system failure in one of the main transmission lines, the country’s power and energy ministry said. The power ...
It was a government-owned and controlled utility of Sri Lanka that took care of the general energy facilities of the island. The Ministry of Power and Energy was the responsible ministry above the CEB. Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), established by the CEB Act No. 17 of 1969, was under the legal obligation to develop and maintain an efficient ...
[1] [2] [3] He is the son of former Cabinet Minister Mahinda Wijesekara. [4] Following the mass resignation of the Sri Lankan cabinet in the wake of the 2022 Sri Lankan protests, he was appointed as the Minister of Power and Energy by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 18 April 2022. [5] [6]
In 2010, the Ministry of Power and Energy, with the Lanka Electricity Company and the Ceylon Electricity Board introduced net metering, where consumers could generate their own power from renewable sources and credit excess production back to the power utility. [34]
According to the Ceylon Electricity Board, the US$455 million first phase generates nearly 1.7 TWh of electricity annually — a significant amount when compared to Sri Lanka's total production of 11.5 TWh in 2011. [4] The plant is connected to the grid via 115 km (71 mi) 220-kilovolt transmission line to Veyangoda.