50% of Sri Lanka’s Power Connections disrupted during the Cyclone

Deputy General Manager of the Ceylon Electricity Board, Noel Priyantha states that around 85% of power connections disrupted due to the emergency disaster situation have now been restored, out of approximately 3.9 million affected consumers. He made this statement yesterday (04) during a special briefing at the Disaster Management Centre. He noted that there are nearly 7 million electricity consumers across the country and power connections to 3.9 million of them were disrupted. As of now, around 85% of these consumers have had their electricity supply restored. During the emergency disaster situation, 16,771 transformers became inactive, and 14,549 of them…

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