Upper Kothmale hydropower project to commission soon

19 December 2011: Water filling to the Upper Kothmale reservoir began on and has been completed within 12 hours and the reservoir is now ready to supply water to the generators. The 65 acre reservoir that has a capacity of 800,000 cubic mters opens to a 13 km tunnel that takes water to the generators.

Upper Kothmale tunnel is the longest tunnel of a hydropower reservoir in Sri Lanka. The Rs 53 billion project that was constructed with the assistance of the government of Japan will add 150 MW of electricity to the national power grid. When completed the run of river hydropower project with an installed capacity of 150MW consisting of two 75MW units, will produce 409GWh per year. The project now in near completion is to commence generation of hydropower from January 2012. The project is implemented by the Ceylon Electricity Board under the supervision of the Ministry of Power and Energy.

Source: ColomboPage