Sri Lanka, Sept. 8 -- Taking a very important step towards strengthening and stabilizing the national power grid, the new grid substation of the Ceylon Electricity Board, built on a 16-acre land in the Habarana area, was inaugurated by Minister of Energy Kumara Jayakody and the Ambassador of Japan, Isomata Akio on Thursday (03).

The inauguration of the new grid substation in Habarana can be introduced as an important step in the 146-kilometer 220-kilovolt Habarana-Veyangoda Power Transmission Project, which is being built with multiple objectives such as transmitting and absorbing renewable energy, increasing transmission capacity and increasing the reliability of power supply, reducing power transmission energy losses and so on, which u...