Sri Lanka has said it will turn off electricity across the country for one-and-a-half hours every day after a breakdown in a 900megawatt $1.4billion Chinese-built coal power plant.
The nationwide power cut was implemented after all three units of the Norocholai coal power plant broke down at the weekend.
The incident led to Sri Lanka losing 48% of its capacity to meet peak demand of 2.26 gigawatts.
The plant has already suffered more than 20 break downs since it was commissioned in March 2011.
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