Sri Lanka to connect 30 MW wind power this week

The second wind farm was near an existing coal plant in Kalpitiya built by Daily Life Renewable (Pvt) Ltd. It had eight wind turbines

Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board will connect 30MegaWatts of wind power from three privately owned wind farm plants this week, pushing total capacity to 63MW, the islands, power ministry said.

The three wind farm plants will contribute about 90 Gigawatt hours (millions of units) of energy a year, or about one percent of total demand.Each wind farm had cost 2.4 billion rupees, the power ministry said. One plant was built in Daluwa, Nirmalapura coast by Nirmalapura Windpower (Pvt) Ltd.

The second wind farm was near an existing coal plant in Kalpitiya built by Daily Life Renewable (Pvt) Ltd. It had eight wind turbines on 85 meter tall towers. The third 10MW plant bordering a lagoon in Sethapola was built by Powergen Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. It had seven wind turbines 65 meters high.

Accordingly, the government hopes to add 400 megawatts of wind power electricity to the national grid by the year 2020.

Sri Lanka’s national energy policies and strategies aim to produce 10 percent of the country’s electricity requirements by 2015through nonconventional renewable-energy sources such as wind power, solar power, and bio gas.

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