Power cuts possible as Norochcholai breaks down
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1 min readFrom 7 outlets- Daily FT reports that the NSO said a generator failure triggered the islandwide blackout on October 17 and brought down the national grid within 30 seconds.
- Lankadeepa reports that Unit 1’s output fell from 187 megawatts to below five megawatts.
- Daily Mirror and Ada Derana report that the NSO expected Norochcholai to resume generation the following day.
- The Government rejected allegations that substandard coal caused the failure, according to Daily Mirror and Newswire.
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