Sri Lanka cuts power for 21 million people after Chinese-built coal generator trips

Sri Lanka has said electricity would be rationed across the island, after a Chinese-built coal power generator shut down in an hours-long nationwide blackout.Power will be cut for nearly three hours every day across the country of 21 million people to conserve electricity, the state-run Ceylon Electricity Board said.A “technical fault” at a 300-megawatt thermal power plant near the capital Colombo on Monday left the nation without power for up to 10 hours.The unspecified failure also caused the…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3097900/sri-lanka-cuts-power-21-million-people-after-chinese-built