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Discount if you use less electricity
View(s):The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) will offer discounts on bills of domestic consumers for reduced consumption.
The CEB has been instructed by the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy to prepare a mechanism to offer discounts to consumers who use 10 percent less than the average monthly consumption.
Power and Renewable Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya told the Sunday Times that the scheme had been initiated as one of the moves to reduce power consumption as the drought conditions may continue for another three months.
He said hydro power generation might have to be stopped as the water levels were dropping so fast and the remaining water would have to be preserved for agriculture.
The minister said that offering the concession to domestic consumers would not be a burden on the CEB as it would be making a saving on power generation. He said the Government also hoped to offer an incentive to public and private institutions which use their own generators.
Among the other plans drawn up by the ministry regarding stand by arrangements are plans to purchase 225 Mw of power from three private power plants and carryout additional purchases if the need arose. In addition, the ministry also has drawn up a plan to buy additional power if the drought conditions persist.