The Hon. Suranga Rathnayaka
Hon. Suranga Rathnayaka questioned the limited five-day public consultation period for the Draft National Electricity Policy, noting that at least 14 days is generally expected. He raised concerns that the policy gives insufficient attention to renewable energy, particularly solar power, and asked what concrete steps are being taken to support solar-based generation, including battery capacity and related technical measures.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, last week your Ministry published the Draft National Electricity Policy on your website. Generally, at least 14 days should be allowed for public comment, but only five days were given. The policy contains only a very small section on renewables. If we plan for 1,600 MW of solar, we need adequate batteries and technical measures. It appears the focus is on procuring power from coal and other sources rather than incentivizing solar. What concrete steps are being taken to promote solar-based generation?
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Tuesday, 17 February 2026 ·No. 23279 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
- Page · column
- not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
- Permalink
/lk/speeches/5793
Cite as: The Hon. Suranga Rathnayaka. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 17 February 2026. No. 23279. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/5793