{"id":472230,"date":"2022-03-02T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T05:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=472230"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T07:29:13","slug":"sri-lanka-imposes-longest-power-cuts-in-26-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lanka-imposes-longest-power-cuts-in-26-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka imposes longest power cuts in 26 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka on Tuesday announced nationwide seven-and-a-half hour daily power cuts, the longest in more than a quarter of a century, as its foreign exchange crisis leaves it unable to import oil. <\/p>\n<p>The Public Utilities Commission said it was a &#8220;black day&#8221; for the island nation as it approved the electricity rationing starting Wednesday with power stations running out of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we are facing is not an issue of electricity capacity, but a foreign exchange crisis,&#8221; the regulatory commission said adding that the country was unable to find dollars to finance oil imports. <\/p>\n<p>The cuts are the longest imposed since 1996, when the country relied on hydropower for as much as 80 per cent of its electricity and a prolonged drought saw reservoirs run dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka on Tuesday announced nationwide seven-and-a-half hour daily power cuts, the longest in more than a quarter of a century, as its foreign exchange crisis leaves it unable to import oil. The Public Utilities Commission said it was a &#8220;black day&#8221; for the island nation as it approved the electricity rationing starting Wednesday with power stations running out of fuel. &#8220;What we are facing is not an issue of electricity capacity, but a foreign exchange crisis,&#8221; the regulatory commission said adding that the country was unable to find dollars to finance oil imports. The cuts are the longest imposed [&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-472230","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\/472230","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=472230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}