Today there was a tentative plan to visit the Morogolla project site and Kotmale power plant. It didn’t work out because the bore holes were not drilled so there was no point going. Because of this we covered all the topics by yesterday. So we had pretty much nothing to do today. Yet we had a small discussion among ourselves and with Mr. Anuruddha on various topics.

Some time back there was a buzz about restructuring the electricity generation, transmission and distribution system. With the growing number of consumers and capacity it’s hard for CEB to manage everything. A proposal was put forward to restructure the system by appointing different organizations to handle generation, transmission and distribution. It is always spoken about that CEB is running at a loss. That is because the cabinet doesn’t approve tariff hikes due to political reasons. However, semi privatizing the Electrical Power system seems farfetched because it will in turn lose governments control over the power sector. Due to this, we will not experience a restructuring process in near future.

Today was the last day at Generation Planning Branch. Next Monday we have to report to LECO to learn about distribution with Prof. Narendra De Silva.