By way of PTI
COLOMBO: India and Sri Lanka have agreed to collectively construct in two levels a 135-megawatt solar energy plant within the island country’s jap port district of Trincomalee to advertise renewable power.
Sri Lankan Cupboard has given popularity of the undertaking as the rustic objectives to generate 70 consistent with cent of its electrical energy requirement through 2030 from renewable power resources.
“The Nationwide Thermal Energy Company of India and the Ceylon Electrical energy Board have entered into an settlement to collectively enforce a solar energy undertaking in two levels,” stated a be aware from the Cupboard assembly held this week.
“As the primary degree of this undertaking, it’s anticipated to enforce a solar energy undertaking of fifty megawatts with a complete estimated funding of USD 42.5 million and to build a 220 kilowatts transmission line with 40-km duration from Sampoor to Kappalthure spending USD 23.6 million, it stated. It’s anticipated to finish this degree in two years from 2024 to 2025,” it stated.
A solar energy era plant with an extra 85 megawatts is anticipated to be built underneath a complete funding of USD 72 million at the second one degree of this undertaking, the be aware stated.
The Indian executive has expressed willingness to advertise and give a boost to cooperation within the renewable power sector through working and facilitating energy era tasks utilising sun and wind energy, together with coastal wind and biomass, it stated.
India can even supply steady transmission of infrastructure in puts the place agreed mutually in Sri Lanka together with the northern and jap provinces in cooperation with non-public and state marketers in India and Sri Lanka, the be aware stated.
A 2013 settlement with NTPC to construct a thermal energy plant in Sampur used to be later deserted over objections to the environmental hazards of the usage of coal for energy era.
COLOMBO: India and Sri Lanka have agreed to collectively construct in two levels a 135-megawatt solar energy plant within the island country’s jap port district of Trincomalee to advertise renewable power.
Sri Lankan Cupboard has given popularity of the undertaking as the rustic objectives to generate 70 consistent with cent of its electrical energy requirement through 2030 from renewable power resources.
“The Nationwide Thermal Energy Company of India and the Ceylon Electrical energy Board have entered into an settlement to collectively enforce a solar energy undertaking in two levels,” stated a be aware from the Cupboard assembly held this week.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“As the primary degree of this undertaking, it’s anticipated to enforce a solar energy undertaking of fifty megawatts with a complete estimated funding of USD 42.5 million and to build a 220 kilowatts transmission line with 40-km duration from Sampoor to Kappalthure spending USD 23.6 million, it stated. It’s anticipated to finish this degree in two years from 2024 to 2025,” it stated.
A solar energy era plant with an extra 85 megawatts is anticipated to be built underneath a complete funding of USD 72 million at the second one degree of this undertaking, the be aware stated.
The Indian executive has expressed willingness to advertise and give a boost to cooperation within the renewable power sector through working and facilitating energy era tasks utilising sun and wind energy, together with coastal wind and biomass, it stated.
India can even supply steady transmission of infrastructure in puts the place agreed mutually in Sri Lanka together with the northern and jap provinces in cooperation with non-public and state marketers in India and Sri Lanka, the be aware stated.
A 2013 settlement with NTPC to construct a thermal energy plant in Sampur used to be later deserted over objections to the environmental hazards of the usage of coal for energy era.