ceb is apparenty give up on the coal power plant - the chinese contractors have found work elsewhere... i guess they are not as patient as us consumers...
so ceb is making plans to add 300MW by 2010... the largest and second largest private power producers in sri lanka have been asked to extend their existing power plants by 100-175MW...
ceb is sticking with diesel power...
as in these new "extensions" will be diesel engines running of furnace oil...
according to the 2005 ceb annual report, the annal electrical energy demand growth rate is around 8%
diesel power plants have a specific fuel consumption of 210-240g/kWh...
that is... they consume about 210-240g of furnace oil for every unit of electricity they produce...
so expect a tariff revision in the electricity prices soon...
oh also... since there is a 8% increase in energy demand, which amounts to about 200MW... and since the ceb dont have any plans to add 200MW by next year... expect power cuts... they MIGHT introduce some emergency power generation of about 50MW or may be even 100MW... and the power cuts will bring the energy demand down to 4% or less than that...
thats how the ceb works!
