{"id":556228,"date":"2023-02-17T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T04:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=556228"},"modified":"2023-02-17T10:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T04:58:36","slug":"sri-lanka-returns-to-non-stop-power-supply-after-a-year-at-higher-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lanka-returns-to-non-stop-power-supply-after-a-year-at-higher-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka returns to non-stop power supply after a year, at higher cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of load-shedding, Sri Lankans will get continuous power from Thursday, albeit with a hike in tariff in line with the conditions set by the IMF.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan government&#8217;s move comes as the debt-hit country aims to secure a much-needed USD 2.9 billion tranche from the Washington-based global lender.<\/p>\n<p>President Ranil Wickremesinghe has directed officials to ensure an uninterrupted power supply to customers after the tariff revision is implemented, a statement from the President&#8217;s Media Division said.<\/p>\n<p>The state power entity said that the power cuts ranging from one to 14 hours from January last year would end on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of load-shedding, Sri Lankans will get continuous power from Thursday, albeit with a hike in tariff in line with the conditions set by the IMF. The Sri Lankan government&#8217;s move comes as the debt-hit country aims to secure a much-needed USD 2.9 billion tranche from the Washington-based global lender. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has directed officials to ensure an uninterrupted power supply to customers after the tariff revision is implemented, a statement from the President&#8217;s Media Division said. The state power entity said that the power cuts ranging from one to 14 hours from January last year would [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556228","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=556228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}