Colombo, March 24 -- Sri Lanka will start work on a joint venture solar power plant in Sampur between India's National Thermal Power Corporation and Sri Lanka's Ceylon Electricity Board, during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 5.
A power purchase agreement for the plant to sell electricity to the national grid has been signed at 5.97 US cents, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told parliament at the end of debate on the 2025 budget.
The CEB and NTPC were earlier planning a 500 MW coal plant at the location in Sampur, in Trincomalee district, but it was scuttled.
Trincomalee is now to be developed as an energy hub, economy next reported.
Referring to PM Modi's visit, President Dissanayake said that a foreign Head of S...