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Progressing towards Sustainable Development: Sri Lanka's National Energy Policy Draft

Ministry of Power & Renewable Energy of Sri Lanka has introduced the draft of the National Energy Policy for Sri Lanka for public comments. This is introduced as a step towards Sri Lanka’s move to sustainable energy as part of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Moving Towards Renewable and Sustainable Energy in Sri Lanka

During the Presidential election 2015, president Maithripala Sirisena announced his manifesto under the theme of compassionate Maithri governance, a stable country”. In the chapter 10 of the aforesaid, he promised to meet the basic energy needs through renewable energy. The manifesto also included among others protecting against rising of imported fuel prices, inclusion of environmental factors in decision making, building biomass power plants and benefiting rural communities. It also mentions removing subsidies for fossil fuel and supporting renewable energy with the President’s policy statements emphasizing the obtaining of long term concessionary loans for clean energy from global funds.

ගෝලීය අභියෝග සදහා නවෝත්පාදනය හා ව්යාවසායකත්වය.

ගෝලීය අභියෝගවලට මුහුණදීමේ නවෝත්පාදන සහ ව්යවසායකත්වයමැයෙන් දේශගුණ විපර්යාස පිළිබද තරුණ සංසදයේ දෙවැනි අදියරේ වැඩමුළුව ශ්රි ලංකාපුවත්පත් ආයතනයේ ස්ලයිකැන් ශ්රවණාගාරයේදී පසුගියදා (09) පැවැත්විණි.