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ADB provides $300m to boost clean energy

Manila, Philippines: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $300 million dual-tranche loan to help Sri Lanka scale up its use of clean energy and cut its reliance on costly petroleum oil for electricity generation.

"The country's heavy dependence on expensive imported petroleum oil hurts the economy, undermines energy security, and harms the environment," said ADB Principal Energy Specialist, Mukhtor Khamudkhanov.

"This loan will help Sri Lanka expand the use of renewable energy for power generation and have major benefits for poor communities and the broader economy," he said.

The first $150 million tranche will finance a 30-megawatt (MW), run-of-the-river hydro-power plant at Moragolla in the Central Province and expand and upgrade transmission lines and other infrastructure in needy areas, including the Northern and Eastern Provinces.

The hydro-power plant will generate an additional 97.7 million units of power for the grid, saving about 72,300 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions every year while improved transmission lines will further reduce annual CO2 emissions by 98,400 tons.

Environmental and social safeguards will be incorporated into the the program to minimise the impact and a mechanism will be developed to guarantee downstream river flows so that sensitive fisheries, including the endangered Green Labeo, will not be adversely affected by the power plant.

The second tranche, due to be delivered in 2016, will include expanding the 33 kilovolt medium voltage network to improve distribution of electricity to consumers and the development of transmission network facilities to allow power delivery from two, 100 MW wind parks due to be built in the Northern Province in 2017 and 2020.

Assistance will also be given for demand-side energy efficiency improvements including the use of smart grid and metering technologies, the retrofitting of buildings with energy saving features, and the installation of cold thermal storage in selected buildings.

The improved transmission system is expected to boost access to reliable power for about 300,000 customers in rural areas and small towns who suffer from low quality supplies.

 

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