Cyclones Ditwah drives 55-pct of Sri Lanka electricity consumers in darkness

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Electricity Board has restored power to 85 percent of customers who lost power during Cyclone by December 04, a top official has said. Out of the CEB’s 7 million customers 3.9 million or 55 percent were without power but 85 percent of the power was now restored, a statement from the President’s media office quoted Deputy General Manager Noel Priyantha as saying. During the disaster, 16,771 transformers had become inactive, and 14,549 of them have already been repaired and restored. The hardest hit cities in Kandy, Gampola and Nuwara Eliya, residents were without power for…

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