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The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has asked for the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) for consent to impose power cuts for two hours and 20 minutes today (01 Feb.) and tomorrow (02 Feb.).
The demand was made upon factor to consider of the reality that the Water Management Secretariat has actually limited the release of water from reservoirs for hydro power generation since the anticipated rains was not experienced.
The Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka today specified that they are no longer able to release adequate volumes of water from reservoirs for the undisturbed supply of electricity.
Appropriately, the Deputy Director General of the Mahaweli Authority discussed that although heavy rains were anticipated in the Mahaweli river basins both the other day (31 Jan.) and today, these rains are currently moving towards the Northern Province, thus, they are unable to offer adequate volumes of water for the continuous supply of electrical energy as they did for the last two days.
Therefore, only those volumes of water required for the usual generation of electrical energy, with the scheduled power cuts in effect, can be supplied.Adequate water to generate power without any disturbances was released on 30 and 31 January, following a demand made in this regard by the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), owing to which, no power cuts were imposed during the abovementioned days.
