22 May 2016 05:25 pm
Power and Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said that more than 50 per cent of the power supply in the country was being generated from hydropower at the moment.
“Earlier this month many of the reservoirs did not have water, it was near ground level. But the with the adverse weather the country experienced earlier this week, many of our reservoirs have more than enough water to provide electricity,” he said.
Siyambalapitiya stated the country had faced the most number of power cuts in that past six or seven months.