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CEB accused of blocking renewable energy to push thermal power; a growing energy mafia?
By Nirmala Kannangara
Colombo, May 28 (Daily Mirror) - Ceylon Electricity Board’s attempt to curtail renewable energy and to promote thermal and coal energy to produce electricity is said to be a mafia, according to Sustainable Energy Authority officials.
According to Sustainable Energy Authority sources, it is questionable why the CEB says that larger power plants provide a critical service to the grid to keep the electricity frequency stable though solar or renewable energy cannot provide such an assurance.
For the first time in the history of the CEB, it has switched off all rooftop solar plants over 100kW and instructed all rooftop and ground mounted solar system owners to switch off their inverters voluntarily to ensure the reliable and stable operation of the national grid during recent New Year season. The CEB claimed that this decision was taken due to the significantly low demand observed in the system.
However, most of the rooftop solar owners disregarded this unusual directive. It is now reported how the CEB engineers have forcibly entered ground mounted solar farms in many parts of the country during the festive season and switched off their inverters from 9am to 4pm for five consecutive days.
Giving various unacceptable explanations, why Renewable Energy (RE) has to be curtailed, the CEB maintains that this curtailment was facilitated to maintain an adequate level of dispatchable generation and improve sufficient system inertia.
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