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Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Electricity Board is
planning the installation of 375MW of wind
power generation in Mannar as part of a
drive to increase power generation from
non-conventional renewable energy
sources. Sri Lanka’s first commercial wind
power plants were established in 2010,
and by the end of 2014 total capacity from
wind power had increased to 124MW.
In comparison with conventional large
power plants, the contribution from
non-conventional sources to the national
grid remains small but continues to increase.
In 2014 the energy share was 9.8 percent.
By January 2015 approximately 442MW of
renewable power plants were connected
to the National Grid, with investment led by
the private sector.
By 2020 the CEB envisages 413MW of
additional capacity in mini hydro, 354MW
in wind power, 124MW from biomass and
81MW from solar power generation. The
board’s long-term generation expansion
plan for 2015 to 2034 is available for public
discussion.
Renewable power mix
plans
Gulf Bridge International (GBI) has
selected Ciena to upgrade its submarine
and terrestrial networks in the Middle East
with 100G and 200G technologies.
Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical platform,
equipped with WaveLogic 3 Extreme
chipset, GeoMesh submarine solutions
and E-Suite integrated packet switching,
will add intelligence to the GBI network,
and improve ease of operations,
maintenance and future capacity
expansions, including an option to
perform future upgrades.
Ed McCormack, vice president and
general manager of submarine systems
at Ciena, disclosed: “With Ciena’s
solutions underpinning GBI’s submarine
and terrestrial cables, GBI will have a
fully optimized end-to-end network.
This massive capacity enhancement
also means that GBI is well positioned
to accommodate growth and help
its customers facilitate the demand
for high-bandwidth applications, such
as those needed for video and cloud
services.”
Adding intelligence to
the network