Sri Lanka's energy push an opportunity for India
Sri Lanka is making a big push
into the energy sector, with focus on renewable energy, and that is an
opportunity for India. This was the message that came across clearly to a team
of Indian journalists that visited Sri Lanka this week.
Of the 4,000-odd MW of installed
capacity, wind and solar is today only 550 MW, but the share of renewable energy
in the mix is set to rise.
A 100 MW wind project in Mannar
in the North West (where the potential is estimated to be 5,000 MW), a programme
to spawn distributed installation of 60 solar plants of 1 MW capacity each
across the country, another clutch of 100 MW of solar plants including one
floating plant on a reservoir and a million roof top solar plants aggregating to
1 GW a.....