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Power outage: Public hearing scheduled for 3 March

05 Feb 2022

  • CEB officials to be questioned under oath
By Asiri Fernando The Public Utility Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) will hold a public hearing on the unplanned power outages on 3 March at the BMICH. According to PUCSL Chairman Janaka Ratnayake, all stakeholders including officials from the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) will be questioned under oath, under the powers vested with the regulator. The hearing will be the first of its kind to be held by the PUCSL, Ratnayake told The Sunday Morning. “This is the first time we are holding a public hearing. It is not a consultation. A number of stakeholders will be summoned to answer questions about the power outages under oath,” Ratnayake explained. Ratnayake stated that as the regulator of public utilities, the PUCSL was determined to get to the bottom of how and why unplanned and unauthorised power outages had occurred. The Ministry of Power is awaiting two reports from two parallel investigations into the island-wide power outage in December last year.  Earlier this month, Minister of Power Gamini Lokuge expressed frustration that the investigations – one by the Police Department and another by a panel of experts appointed by the Ministry – were delayed in submitting their reports. Lokuge has also expressed concern about possible acts of sabotage within the CEB.

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