The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) says that rumors circulating on social media that the daily power cut duration will increase to 10hrs a day from tomorrow are not true.
The daily power cut duration is expected to be reduced to 3 hours and 20 minutes from next week and there is no requirement to extend it, Chairman of the CEB, M. M. C. Ferdinando informed the media.
CEB officials further said that they are working on completing the repair work of the Norochcholai power plant as soon as possible.
A technical breakdown was experienced in one of the 270MW generators in the Norochcholai Power Plant on Tuesday (3), which prompted authorities to release more diesel to thermal power plants throughout last week. (NewsWire)