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The Hon. (Dr.) Kavinda Heshan Jayawardhana

Samagi Jana Balawegaya· Gampaha· 21 August 2025 ·Oral question: Oral Question: Strengthening Power Supply Stability (Q.735/2025)

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Dr. Kavinda Heshan Jayawardhana asked the Minister of Energy whether the Government was aware of the islandwide power outage on 9 February 2025. He requested details of the short-term and long-term measures taken after the outage to strengthen the stability of Sri Lanka’s power supply network, and, if no such action had been taken or awareness existed, the reasons for that.

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¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Energy: STRENGTHENING OF STABILITY OF POWER SUPPLY: STEPS TAKEN (Q. 735/2025)

¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House— (i) whether he is aware that there was a power outage in Sri Lanka on 09.02.2025; and (ii) if so, separately, the short-term and long-term steps taken to strengthen the stability of the power supply network following the outage? (b) If not, why?

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Hansard, Thursday, 21 August 2025 ·No. 1757391500023637 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Kavinda Heshan Jayawardhana. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 August 2025. No. 1757391500023637. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/22568