Sri Lanka will start work joint venture solar power plant with India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on April 05, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said.
A power purchase agreement for the plant to sell electricity to the national grid has been signed at 5.97 US cents, President Dissanayake told parliament at the end of debate on the 2025 budget.
The solar plant in Sampur is a joint venture between National Thermal Power Corporation, an Indian state agency and Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Electricity Board.
The CEB and NTPS was planning a 500 MegaWatt coal plant as the location, but it was scuttled through various means just before international tenders were to be called for the turbines.
Trincomallee is now to be developed as an energy hub.