Sri Lanka schedules power cuts of 3 hours 40 mins from May 19-21

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will impose power cuts up to 3 hours and 40 minutes from May 19-21, Public Utilities Commission (PUCSL) Chairman Janaka Ratnayake said on Wednesday (18).

All areas (ABCDEFGHIJKLPQRSTUVW) will have power cuts of 2 hours from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm and 1 hour and 40 minutes from 5.00 pm and 8.50 pm.

Between 6.00 am and 9.00 am, the Colombo City center could face a power cut of three hours.

Board of Investments, Industrial zones coming under MNOXY and Z areas will have a power cut of three hours from 5.00 am and 8.00 am.

The schedule will be applied for all three days.

The state-run Ceylon Electricity Board said the supply interruption time and restoration time will be varied within 30 minutes as indicated above.

Download the power cut schedule for May 19 here and from May 20-21 here.

CEB said on Tuesday (17), Kelenitissa power station received 3000 Metric tons of diesel for power generation.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe on Monday stated that there is a possibility of the ongoing power shedding may increase to as high as 15 hours per day in the future.

However, on Wednesday (18), Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said despite the forex shortage a continuous supply of diesel has been secured. (Colombo/ May 18/2022)