Sri Lanka to explore expansion of renewable and LNG energy generation options
Sri Lanka is reportedly exploring the possibilities of expanding renewable energy and liquefied natural gas (LNG) power generation modes.
Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said the country had started off with hydro power generation decades ago and has added coal and other sources of power such as coal during the last decade.
Sri Lanka had to boost renewable energy and was also planning to set up three LNG power plants, the Prime Minister has been quoted as saying in the media.
Wickremesinghe has made these observations addressing a seminar in Colombo backed by UK based World Renewable Energy Congress, a grouping that promotes renewable energy, under the theme of Green Colombo.
Sri Lanka’s Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka has said that climate change had brought humanity to the brink of extinction.
“This is what the emotional cry of that 16 year old girl at the UN Climate Change Summit is all about,” the Minister has said.
Greta Thunberg, a school girl from Sweden, recently said that all people talk about is money and gross domestic product growth.
“People are dying, entire eco-systems are collapsing, we are at the beginning of a mass extinction,” she was quoted as saying in the international media.
“All you can talk about is the money, and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you,” she has said.
OSL take:
The looming power crisis in Sri Lanka has pushed authorities to explore renewable energy generation options. Business/investment opportunities continue to expand in Sri Lanka’s power and energy sector.
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