By Yoshitha PereraThe Sri Lankan Government is engaged in a strategic plan to promote and develop renewable energy power plants in the country. Currently, under the concept of “Ready to Invest”, we have planned three stages for implementing renewable energy power plants. We are trying to add renewable energy plants by replacing thermal power energy in the country, and the operational cost of renewable energy is much lower than thermal power generation. The current national power grid, which primarily consists of hydroelectric power and thermal power, will be expanded further with renewable energy sources. If we are looking to upgrade renewable energy, we have to definitely shut down diesel and coal power plants.

Source: The Nation July 24, 2021 16:52 UTC