Power generation in Sri Lanka: status and future options

The operation of the unique electricity generating system in Sri Lanka with its often conflicting priorities for power and irrigation is already a challenge to its power engineers. Planning of system operations in the short, medium and longer terms is subject to too many variables not encountered in many other generating systems. With most of the hydroelectric power potential in the country already developed, the future generating system will require large, baseload thermal generation. It is a power system in transition