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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 6.29 GMT
Kerawalapitiya coal power plant ready by end of this month

 
The 300 MW Kerawalapitiya electricity generation plant is scheduled to be commissioned at the end of this month.

The US$ 300 million power plant will generate 200 MW under its first phase and add it to the National Grid and in the second phase it will generate the other 100 MW in 2009, the Power and Energy Ministry said.

According to Power and Energy Ministry the kerawalapitiya Combined Circle power-generation plant was the first of its kind using furnace oil at the first stage and at the second stage it would use liquid gas and steam. 90 per cent of Sri Lankan engineers had laboured to construct the plant with the assistance of American technical know-how.

According to engineers, the plant had been designed to utilized low cost oil and would be converted to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) within few years.


 







 
 
   
   
   
   

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