The Sampur Saga I – The insanity of adding any more Coal Power Plants
27th October 2015, www.island.lk, By Eng. Parakrama Jayasinghe
There has been a fervent appeal by many, over the years to implement the proposed Sampur Coal Power plant, with warning of dire consequences of power shortages due to any delay in this project. This call has been renewed in the recent weeks and the latest appeared in the Ceylon Today with a warning by the CEB Engineers union of the need for a new fuel source by 2017. The specter of power shortage by 2019 is trotted out in an attempt to garner public support. These warnings are based on the assumption that the increasing demand for electricity will out strip the generation capacity of both CEB and the private producers.
The Sampur Saga - I