{"id":17156,"date":"2025-08-27T09:27:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energymin.gov.lk\/power\/?p=17156"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:24:46","slug":"news2708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energymin.gov.lk\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/news2708\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister of Energy, Engineer Kumara Jayakody Intervenes to Uplift the Lakvijaya Power Plant at Norochcholai to Ensure Stability of the National Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norochcholai Lakvijaya Coal-fired Power Plant plays a key role in maintaining the stability of the country&#8217;s electricity supply. However, the auxiliary power supply of the condenser cooling system and boiler feed water supply system of the power plant fails during a nationwide power outage, which is a major weakness of the power plant. This causes a prolonged down time of the plant up to four to five days. This also leads to substantial financial losses.<\/p>\n<p>A committee was appointed as per the directives of the Energy Minister Eng. Kumara Jayakody to find a technically solution to avoid this situation, and the committee has suggested that it would be appropriate to introduce a seamless standby auxiliary power supply for critical systems which can be implemented within a short time.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the proposal made by the Minister of Energy to implement a project to operate an auxiliary power supply for the condenser cooling system and boiler feed water system using the funds of the CEB was approved by the Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in response to a question raised in Parliament on 21-08-2025, the Minister of Energy presented this matter as an essential step to be taken in order to maintain the stability of the national grid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norochcholai Lakvijaya Coal-fired Power Plant plays a key role in maintaining the stability of the country&#8217;s electricity supply. 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