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Gamini Lokuge alleges Government ‘pressured’ to go for private power purchasing 

24 Jan 2022

  • Alleges ‘certain parties want Govt. to sign such agreements at high cost’ 
Power Minister Gamini Lokuge yesterday (24) alleged that “certain parties” want the Government to sign private power purchasing agreements, in order to acquire power at a higher cost.  “Some people want private power purchasing agreements to be signed, which is why some engineers are accusing the Government of not taking alternate paths to avoid a power crisis. But we have taken our own measures to avert the power crisis, by depending on our existing power plants. We will have to consider these kinds of agreements in April anyway, when the drought worsens. We have not forgotten that but we are trying to do this at as low a cost as possible,” Lokuge said, while addressing a media briefing yesterday.  He said that in the past, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has received electricity from private power plants through such agreements, which were terminated in April and June 2021. “We wanted to extend them only temporarily, for maybe three or six months, but the companies did not agree to do so.”  Furthermore, Lokuge said that the cost incurred by the CEB reduced significantly this January when compared to January 2021. “We were able to reduce this cost because last year we mostly relied on coal power and hydropower to generate electricity. These days we are focusing on running our fuel power plants.”  In 2020, Cabinet of Ministers’ approval was not granted to extend the power purchasing agreements already in place with three private power companies – ACE Power Matara, ACE Power Embilipitiya, and Asia Power Sapugaskanda – which altogether supplied a total of 170 megawatts (MW) to the national grid.gamini

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