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Kukule Ganga project to fulfil power shortage by Farah Macan Markar In another two months the two turbines of the kukule Ganga Hydropower Project (KGHP) will generate power to the national grid, which will be 5% of Sri Lanka's total power supply. At the moment, one of the turbines is being tested and the other will undergo testing in August. The inauguration ceremony will take place on the September 19. Each of the turbines will generate 35 MW, totalling a capacity of 70 MW and it will be augmented to 80 MW later on, according to Ministry of Power and Energy officials. The country's present requirement of electricity is 20 million units per day. R. Koga, Deputy Director General of the Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC), who visited the site for its final inspection last week, said: "We hope the project will fulfil the power shortage in the country and stabilise the power line". The JBIC has granted Rs.13 billion of the total estimate cost of Rs.15 billion for the completion of the project. Located in the south east of Colombo in the Kalawana and Agalawatte electorates in the Ratnapura and Kalutara districts respectively, the project is on the Kukule Ganga, a tributary of the Kalu Ganga with a catchment of 312 square kilometres at the site. With the annual rainfall in the basin at 3750 mm, the power plant is expected to generate an average annual production of 317 GWH. The construction of a 110 m long concrete weir across the river with a maximum height of 16m is almost complete at a location upstream of a series of rapids along the river. The spillway of the weir is in the middle of the riverbed and consists of four overflow weirs equipped with radial gates of 12m x 10m (W x H) with both automatic and manual operation. |
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