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Sri Lanka has decided to summation energy prices with effect from April 1, the powerfulness authorities said.
The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) Chairman K.P.L. Chandralal said connected Monday (March 30, 2026) that the authorities powerfulness entity, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), had asked for an implicit 13.5% hike crossed antithetic usage blocks based connected the units consumed.
"However, considering problems faced by each sectors, households and industries would beryllium taxable to lone an 8.5% increase," Mr. Chandralal said.
The tariff revision connection submitted by CEB was analysed by the PUCSL, and aft nationalist consultations, the committee decided to summation the tariffs, helium said.
The tariff hike means that those consuming implicit 180 units would spot a 25% increase.
If the substance prices emergence significantly, and CEB costs summation by implicit 15%, the inferior tin marque a caller submission, helium said. “In that event, we are prepared to see specified a proposal.” Issuing guidelines to conserve vigor successful the authorities sector, the Commissioner General of Essential Services said that by 3 p.m., each aerial conditioners indispensable beryllium switched disconnected astatine each authorities institutions.
All advertizing hoardings illuminated indispensable beryllium switched disconnected by 8 p.m. All section councils indispensable instrumentality enactment to power disconnected thoroughfare lights betwixt 6-10 p.m. and the nationalist grid proviso indispensable not beryllium utilized to powerfulness functions participated by much than 100 people.
Earlier this month, substance rationing strategy based connected a QR codification was introduced aft weeks of agelong queues astatine petrol retailers.
The authorities said it was moving with Russia to get crude successful presumption of the existent proviso concatenation difficulties owed to the warfare successful the West Asia.
The Tourism Authority announced connected Monday (March 30, 2026) that tourer arrivals had dropped by implicit 18% by 25 March twelvemonth connected year, a nonstop fallout from the West Asia war.
