Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody says that the country’s power outage was caused by a monkey hitting the Panadura grid substation. The minister also claims that the electricity transmission system has collapsed due to this.
However, the Energy Ministry has only stated the cause of the power outage as an ’emergency at the Panadura substation’.
While the Electricity Board has not yet made an official explanation regarding the power outage, Secretary to the Ministry of Energy, Professor Udayanga Hemapala, said that the imbalance in the system has caused the power outage.