Published in the Daily Mirror on 03 June 2008 By Parakrama Jayasinghe – President, Bio-Energy Association of Sri Lanka The present situation is more a financial crisis than an energy crisis due to the overdependence on imported sources of energy and the escalation of world prices over which we have no control at all. It […]
The way forward for the use of wood and agricultural waste for energy production in S.E. Asia. Project Summary Location The project calls for a conference and linked workshops which will be centred on Sri Lanka. Summary This project will be centred around the staging of an international conference on the subject of the development […]
The land use outputs from the Sri Lanka Fuel wood Project are: the listing of areas potentially suitable for fuel wood plantations the commencement of identification of areas available for plantations an indication of the willingness of farmers to grow fuel wood Download PDF
Sri Lanka depends largely on imported oil and firewood to meet its energy requirements. Large dam hydroelectric plants were once the main source of electrical energy, but today, diesel and oil-fuelled thermal power plants provide the major share. The most common forms of biomass available in Sri Lanka are fuel wood (from forestry, arboricultural activities […]
Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority has completed the study of ‘Assessment and Mapping of Biomass Energy Consumption in Sri Lankan Industries’. It presents the findings related to biomass consumption in the industrial sector. Industries studied under the survey were tea, rubber, coconut, textile, major manufacturing industries, power plants, sugar, tile, lime, brick, pottery and […]
The need and urgency for achieving a status of energy independence for Sri Lanka has been discussed with increasing frequency in the recent years. This is driven by the two related and increasingly compelling trends seen, one of the end of the fossil fuel era on one hand and the bitter truth of the global […]
Eng. Parakrama Jayasinghe (2014) Sustainable Biomass Energy Project – Project on promoting sustainable biomass energy production and modern bio energy technologies Industrial thermal energy can be regarded as one of the major thrust areas for fuel switching (from fossil fuels to fuel wood or other biomass) as it offers the best economic justification. Another reason […]
Eng. Parakrama Jayasinghe (2014) It is welcome news that the National Energy Policy, which was drafted in 2005 and finally approved in 2006 is to be revised. This is an opportunity not to be missed to ensure that Sri Lanka adopts an appropriate and visionary energy policy, which takes into account the global realities of […]
ඉදිරි වසරවල බලශක්තිය – රටේ බල ශක්ති අවශ්යතා හා වත්මන් අර්බුදය 2008 ජුනි 03 වන දින ඩේලි මිරර් පත්රයේ පළ විය. පරාක්රම ජයසිංහ විසිනි – සභාපති ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජීව බල ශක්ති ආයතනය. අද පවතින්නේ බල ශක්ති අර්බූදයකට වඩා ආනයන කරන ලද බල ශක්ති මූලාශ්ර මත වැඩියෙන් රඳා පැවැත්ම හා අපට කිසිසේත් පාලනය කළ නොහැකි ලෝක […]
