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Trending·3 sources·Updated 24m ago

October 17 power outage: Norochcholai unit failure triggered outage, preliminary report says

The sudden disconnection of 187 megawatts of electricity from the first unit of the Norochcholai Lakvijaya Power Plant triggered the…

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Image: NewsWire EnglishNewsWire English•24m agoOctober 17 power outage: Norochcholai unit failure triggered outage, preliminary report says

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Hiru News - English•1h agoPreliminary report details cause of October 17 national power failureAda Derana•2h agoPreliminary report on Oct. 17 island-wide power outage submitted to PUCSL

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Names and places drawn from every article in this story. The number shows how many of them mentioned it.

Organisations
  • Public Utilities Commission of Sri2
  • Norochcholai Lakvijaya Power Plant
Places
  • Colombo3
  • Samanalawewa2
  • Kelanitissa2
  • Randenigala2
  • Sri Lanka2
  • Laxapana2
  • Mahaweli2
  • Victoria2
Keywords
  • preliminary3
  • report3
  • failure2
  • october2
  • outage2
  • submitted
  • triggered
  • national
  • sequence
  • details

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Oct 31, 8:29 AM
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Oct 31, 10:24 AM

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