Sri Lanka power regulator approves 75% tariff hike

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Janaka Ratanayke, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka, said in a statement

Uditha Jayasinghe, Reuters News

August 9, 2022

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Sri Lanka's power regulator said on Tuesday it had approved a 75% hike in power tariffs.

"The Commission decided to approve a fair electricity tariff, taking all these public and other stakeholder comments into consideration," Janaka Ratanayke, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka, said in a statement. (Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe in Colombo, writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar, editing by Andrew Heavens)

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