The Northern Power Station, is a 36 MW fuel-oil burning power station built in Chunnakam, Jaffna District, in Sri Lanka. The power station was built after the Northern Power company won a Ceylon Electricity Board tender to urgently set up a power station in the region in response to the 1990s/2000s power crisis.[1] During its operations, the power plant had faced a number of legal cases due to the alleged contamination of water resources in the region.[2]
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Coordinates | 9°44′19″N 80°02′04″E / 9.7386°N 80.0344°E |
Status | Operational |
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edit- ^ Sirimane, Shirajiv (7 June 2009). "Lights for entire Jaffna Peninsula: 36MW power plant set up in Chunnakam". Sunday Observer. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Jaffna-Chunnakam Northern Power plant reopens". Daily FT. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
External links
edit- "Northern Lights". Lanka Business Online. 31 July 2006. Retrieved 8 November 2015.