(Notice published under Section 17 of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka Act No. 35 of 2002) 

The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (Commission) hereby announces its decision to hold a Stakeholder Consultation on the draft Long Term Generation Expansion Plan 2025-2044 prepared and submitted by Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) for the approval of the Commission under Section 43 of the Sri Lanka Electricity Act No. 20 of 2009 (as amended).

This plan provides a comprehensive overview of the prevailing generating system, forecasted electricity demand growth, candidate generating technologies most suitable to provide the capacity requirement, environmental and climate change considerations, operational characteristics of the future system, risk evaluation, and sensitivities to major changes such as fuel prices.

The Commission intends to conduct the Stakeholder Consultation prescribed under the section 17 of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka Act No. 35 of 2002.

The relevant consultation document can be downloaded here and the draft Long Term Generation Expansion Plan 2025-2044 submitted by CEB is available here to download.

The Stakeholders and General Public are hereby invited to submit the written comments if any on the draft Long Term Generation Expansion Plan 2025-2044 and the Commission may consider such submissions or may request such parties, if necessary, to provide oral submissions at the oral session of the Stakeholder Consultation.

A session for oral submissions will be held under and by virtue of powers vested with the Commission under Section 17 of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka Act No 35 of 2002 and the interested parties will be given the opportunity (subjected to the availability of time) to present their views at the aforesaid session. Therefore, you may specify your interest in participating in the session along with the written submission. The Date, Time and Venue of the session for oral submissions will be informed in due course.

Written comments can be submitted to the following address or through other methods mentioned below before 08^th December 2024.

“Stakeholder Consultation on The Long Term Generation Expansion Plan 2025-2044”

Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka,

Level 06, BOC Merchant Tower, No. 28, St. Michael’s Road, Colombo 03.

 

Fax: (011)2392641

Email: consultation@pucsl.gov.lk

Website: www.pucsl.gov.lk

Facebook Account: www.facebook.com/pucsl

For further information and/or clarification please contact Mr. Sameera Adikaram on 0770126254