Comments on: Power Cuts For Two Hours DAILY

By: Jack Point

Jack Point — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:49:45 +0000

At least now they should move to daylight saving time.

By: sack

sack — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:48:47 +0000

We have continuous power but at a huge cost…
Governments from 1993-2005 f*cked our cheap electricity. But they had help from environmental groups, ngos, church, local politicians…

We need to replace our diesel or fuel/furnace oil fired plants with coal or LNG fired ones.
That’s the only way achieve a low cost reliable electricity supply.

By: tastyjujubes

tastyjujubes — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:48:07 +0000

Powercuts are a feature of daily life in most parts of India – including in cities like Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi. Since many Sri Lankans love to glorify everything about India let us rejoice in the fact that we are following India’s path to prosperity by following their example of power cuts.

By: indi.ca » What To Do During A Power Cut @yamulk

indi.ca » What To Do During A Power Cut @yamulk — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:11:43 +0000

[...] just gone out, so I’m rushing to get this out. These power cuts are not isolated incidents. As discussed, the decrepitude of Sri Lanka’s energy policy leaves us dependent on the rain for basic [...]

By: sack

sack — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:01:26 +0000

“rains and our ability to burn stuff”
well most of the worlds electricity depends on this, coal and LNG.
No one other than major oil producers use diesel or fuel/furnace oil for electrical generation due to the cost.
We do use but that the reason for the huge loss at CEB.

Does anyone knows what wrong with the coal power plant?
There is rumor that the machinery is old (but this is pure rumor since no one/or organization has been named as the source and Sri lankan journos suck at technical things).

Two other claims is that,
1.Chinese are sabotaging it to extend the maintenance agreement. Chinese haven’t properly trained CEB personal- this by the CEB union (which mostly comprises of electrical engineers)

2.The CEB engineers are unfamiliar with the new coal power plant. And the CEB engineers (who are electrical engineers) do not recruit mechanical engineers who have a better knowledge about mechanical things.-by CEB mechanical engineers

From a other source (person with knowledge and has visited the plant) told me that it more with the second issue. The coal power plant is the most technically complex thing here and our people are unfamiliar with it.

Is there any one who have a better knowledge about this?

By: Rohan Samarajiva

Rohan Samarajiva — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:14:57 +0000

The last rolling blackouts were in May 2002. That is 10 years ago.

By: sathutuuyana

sathutuuyana — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:00:53 +0000

A developing country? This last happened 15 years ago so our current direction seems to be backwards.