The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has reported over 36,900
breakdowns resulting in power interruptions to more than 300,000 consumers in the last three days due to inclement weather.
Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara said that additional service staff has been assigned to attend the breakdowns.
Posting on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), the Minister stated that the CEB management and service staff are working 24 hours to restore power to the affected consumers,
Meanwhile, Wijesekara also expressed that if the consumers are unable to report power interruptions through the CEB hotline 1987, they can use the SMS option to 1987 with breakdown and the electricity consumer number to follow, use the CEB Care app or through http://cebcare.ceb.lk.