'Over-use' blamed for plant failure: A Chinese firm which designed Sri Lanka's only coal-fired power station said recent repeated failures were caused by over-use the plant without annual maintenance, after an extended drought reduced 85 percent of the country's hydro power generation.
Sri Lanka's state-run Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) on August 13th extended nation-wide daily power cuts by two weeks, owning to repeated problems at the plant in Norochcholai which knocked out almost a fifth of the island's generating capacity. "The Norochcholai coal power plant was forced to work beyond its required limits and keep supplying electricity to the whole country,"
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