Monkey responsible for nationwide power failure in Sri Lanka

Monkey responsible for nationwide power failure in Sri Lanka

Colombo, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka extended the power outages on Thursday for the third time, while the country was fighting to bring its national power grid to full capacity again. A monkey had triggered a far -reaching blackout at the weekend that affected the power supply for the 22 million inhabitants of the island.

cause of the power failures

A failure that lasted six hours on Sunday was attributed to a monkey by Minister Kumara Jayakody who disturbed a substation in a suburb of Colombo. No power failures were carried out on Wednesday because this was a holiday in Sri Lanka.

Details of the incident

The monkey had had contact with the transformer at the station, which impaired the power supply across the country. At first there was no information about whether the monkey survived the incident.

planned power failures

from 6 p.m. (12:30 p.m. GMT), according to the state electricity monopoly, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), one -hour power outages are to be carried out. The failure on Sunday also affected the only 900 MW coal -fired power plant on the island, which had to be transferred to the security mode, said the Ceb.

recovery measures

"All efforts are made to bring the network back to full capacity, but power outages are implemented to control the peak load times at night," added the CEB in an explanation.

summary of the last days

90-minute power outages were carried out on Monday and Tuesday to control the demand. An investigation into the incident is currently being carried out by the Ministry of Energy.