Sri Lanka cabinet’s decision this week to raise the tariff on water supply will unlock a $200 million funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to be used by the government as the budget support, Minister of Water Supply and Estate…
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ri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has proposed reducing tariffs by an average of 3%, in a new cost and tariff filing, but the proposed costs have fallen 27%, Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, Janaka Ratnayake…
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Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara has submitted a motion to Parliament seeking to remove the head of the power regulator, the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL)
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For President Ranil Wickremesinghe and his government March will be the most eventful month. It may also become the month of their reckoning, a fact hardly lost on the regime’s detractors as they get ready for a spate of protests against…
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Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday (16) directed the Ministry of Power and Energy to ensure uninterrupted power supply after the proposed record tariff hike is implemented
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Tilak Siyambalapitiya, a power sector expert who had warned of impending crises in the sector several years in advance explains how the tariff methodology was supposed to work
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Sri Lanka’s cabinet on Monday (9) approved new electricity tariffs to reflect the cost of coal and power generation to take effect this month, Power Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said, without saying how much higher they would be
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Sri Lanka plans to hike power tariffs by 60 to 65% in January 2022 through cabinet approval to offset costs, officials said
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Sri Lanka's state-run electricity monopoly will raise tariffs by a stinging 264% for people consuming the least, it announced Tuesday (9), while higher users will face a smaller increase
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COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's president vowed "immediate steps" to amend anti-terror legislation to retain a lucrative trade status with the European Union, his office said Tuesday (5). The EU had warned Sri Lanka that its generalized system of…
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