{"id":454127,"date":"2021-12-04T10:55:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T05:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454127"},"modified":"2021-12-04T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T06:52:22","slug":"sri-lanka-suffers-major-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lanka-suffers-major-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka suffers major power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka suffered a power outage across large parts of the island on Friday, local media reported, as state power workers scrambled to get a key transmission line operational. <\/p>\n<p>The blackout occurred two days after engineers at state-run Ceylon Electricity Board began a work-to-rule protest over the government&#8217;s plans to sell a 40% stake in a power plant to New Fortress Energy Inc from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outage is due to the failure of a key transmission line,\u201d CEB spokesman Sulakshana Jayawardena told Reuters. \u201cThe CEB is working to restore power as soon as possible. It is too early to say whether the outage was countrywide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka suffered a power outage across large parts of the island on Friday, local media reported, as state power workers scrambled to get a key transmission line operational. The blackout occurred two days after engineers at state-run Ceylon Electricity Board began a work-to-rule protest over the government&#8217;s plans to sell a 40% stake in a power plant to New Fortress Energy Inc from the United States. \u201cThe outage is due to the failure of a key transmission line,\u201d CEB spokesman Sulakshana Jayawardena told Reuters. \u201cThe CEB is working to restore power as soon as possible. It is too early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}