CEB releases zones and schedules of daily power cuts

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has released the daily power cut schedule and the regions it will affect.

Accordingly, the country has been divided into four groups – A, B, C, and D – where each group will experience a one-hour long power every evening between 06 pm to 10 pm.

As per the released schedule, day-time time slots, too, have been assigned to each group. However, they will only come to effect depending on the demand and available generation capacity at a particular time, the CEB said.

Further, CEB requests all the customers to switch off non-essential electrical appliances between 06 pm to 10 pm so that CEB could minimize the demand curtailment.

The demand management will be carried out in Groups listed herewith:

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