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Regulator has been in a tug-of-war with CEB, minister in the last 6 months.
Sri Lanka saw long queues for cooking gas last year
Government has already increased tariffs by over 50% in 2022
Their target is to earn 100 billion rupees from all citizens that uses less than 120 units in 2023
CEB incurred heavy losses before it raised the tariffs to reflect cost
Will call for expressions of interest for public private partnerships to install solar panels on 300 railway stations
Sri Lanka will call tenders for a 300 MegaWatt diesel combined cycle power plant that can also be operated on liquefied ...
Sri Lanka has confirmed the scrapping of a 500 MegaWatt coal plant in Trincomalee planned as a joint venture with India,...
Sri Lanka will only allow the import and production of 'square pin' plugs and sockets and ban the import of electrical g...
A decision on awarding a concession to operate ship re-fuelling (bunkers) services from Sri Lanka's Hambantota port is a...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s finance ministry has raised excise duty on diesel by Rs10 a litre to Rs13, a mov...
Sri Lanka plans to issue new licenses to import bitumen (road tar), charging a Rs2.0 million fee every six months, Infor...
Sri Lanka will issue more licenses to import lubricants and double fees, set quality standards, and formalise the regula...
Sri Lanka-based Lanka Ventures Plc, a venture capital firm with a strong focus on energy, said it will invest $3.0 milli...
Sri Lanka's power generation rose 8.6 percent from a year earlier to 6,923 GigaWatt hours (millions of units) in the fir...
ECONOMYNEXT – French oil major Total SA has begun an Environmental Impact Assessment in preparation for surveys f...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 332.3603 | 330.8514 |
| UK Pound | 440.9424 | 438.3450 |
| Euro | 368.4879 | 371.0168 |
| Yen | 2.0805 | 2.0916 |
| Aus Dollar | 227.4342 | 231.1659 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.5474 | 3.4202 |
| Korean Won | 0.2492 | 0.2479 |
| Oman Rial | 863.2287 | 859.3320 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.5586 | 88.0955 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.4874 | 90.0766 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 6,365.57 | +0.26% |
| CSE All Share | 22,157.40 | +0.56% |
| Turnover Rs | 2975.05 million | 1193.67 million |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 7.61 | 7.84 |
| 6-m bill | 7.91 | 8.26 |
| 12-m bill | 8.23 | 8.3 |
| 3-yr bond | 9.24 | 9.25 |
| 5-yr bond | 9.82 | 9.56 |
| 8-yr bond | 10.50 | 10.48 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
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Sri Lanka is making plans to pay power users with rooftop solar panels, going beyond the current system of net metering ...
Sri Lanka is planning to boost renewable energy to 70 percent of total by 2030 from the current 50 percent by building 3...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Laugfs Gas PLC said June 2016 net profit fell 92 percent to Rs26 million from a ...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government is close to presenting a new petroleum law to parliament and completing a...
Sri Lanka's power regulator has given the nod for state-run Ceylon Electricity Board to buy alternative plants on an int...
Sri Lanka may see the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plant finalized in the next few months as a public-private...
Sri Lanka plans to upgrade its sole oil refinery and double its capacity to boost output, and to reduce the cost of impo...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of US$115 million to help Sri Lanka achieve 100% electrification an...
Sri Lanka plans to revise electricity tariffs every six months starting from April 2017, in a bid to maintain cost-refle...
China's ShanDong Dongming Petrochemical Group is planning a refinery near Sri Lanka's Hambantota port in the Southern ti...
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