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Ceylon Electricity Board — power plant portfolio

Ceylon Electricity Board operates 29 power plants across 1 country, with a combined installed capacity of 3,377 MW.

29power plants
3,377MW total capacity
1countries
t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Hydro: 20 plants20HydroOil: 8 plants8OilCoal: 1 plants1Coal

Fleet interpretation

Ceylon Electricity Board is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 1 country; the largest concentration is Sri Lanka (29).

The fuel mix by asset count is hydro (20), oil (8), coal (1). The largest listed asset is Lakvijaya in Sri Lanka (900 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 116 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 0 plants have a reported or modelled CO₂ value in the dataset, including 0 measured records. Missing values remain blank rather than inferred as company totals.

Method: plant-level records are grouped by owner/operator label, then aggregated by country, fuel, capacity and CO₂ provenance.

All 29 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
LakvijayaCoalSri Lanka900
CEB KelantitissaOilSri Lanka382
YugadanaviOilSri Lanka300
VictoriaHydroSri Lanka210
KotmaleHydroSri Lanka201
SapugaskandaOilSri Lanka160
Upper KotmaleHydroSri Lanka150
SamanalaHydroSri Lanka124
RandenigalaHydroSri Lanka122
New LaxapanaHydroSri Lanka100
PolpitiyaHydroSri Lanka75
Kukule GangaHydroSri Lanka70
Colombo PortOilSri Lanka62
CanyonHydroSri Lanka60
RantembeHydroSri Lanka52
Asia Power SapugaskandaOilSri Lanka51
Old LaxapanaHydroSri Lanka50
WimalasurendraHydroSri Lanka50
BowatennaHydroSri Lanka40
UkuwelaHydroSri Lanka40
Northern PowerOilSri Lanka36
BroadlandsHydroSri Lanka35
MoragahakandaHydroSri Lanka25
LakdhanaviOilSri Lanka24
Uthuru JananiOilSri Lanka24
InginiyagalaHydroSri Lanka11
UdawalaweHydroSri Lanka6
NilambeHydroSri Lanka3
Deduru OyaHydroSri Lanka2

Ownership & capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). CO₂ is measured for EPA/EU ETS records and modelled for Climate TRACE records.

Frequently asked questions

How many power plants does Ceylon Electricity Board operate?

Ceylon Electricity Board operates 29 power plants across 1 country, with about 3,377 MW of total capacity.

What is Ceylon Electricity Board's largest power plant?

Lakvijaya in Sri Lanka is its largest at about 900 MW.

What types of power plants does Ceylon Electricity Board run?

Its fleet is mostly hydro (20), oil (8), coal (1).

By Dmytro Aheiev, Inzonex Research · ORCID 0009-0001-5512-0291 · data sources and methodology