By Namini Wijedasa
CEB engineers shed light on blackout
Monday’s island-wide blackout was caused by high voltage in the power system that led to a “cascade collapse”, Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) engineers said. It is the first time in five years that such an outage occurred.
“There were nine island-wide power system failures from 2006 to 2010 but there were none since 2010 till the last incident,” said Athula Wanniarachchi, President of the CEB Engineers’ Union (CEBEU).
“This is due to the successful implementation of automatic system restoration methods adopted by the CEB in 2010.”
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