Feb 14, 2025 · Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over the weekend that ...

9 hours ago · Sri Lanka experienced the mass outage on February 9 when a sub-power station was disrupted by the electrocution of a monkey. The Ceylon Electricity Board said the resulting nationwide failure ...

Feb 10, 2025 · A monkey has been blamed for causing a nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka. The island nation's 22 million residents were mostly left without power during the outage, which began around 11am local ...

2 days ago · The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) yesterday said that it has implemented immediate and long-term measures to strengthen grid stability following the nationwide power failure on 9 February. Issuing a statement clarifying the cause of the power failure and future actions to be taken as long-term grid stability solutions, the CEB acknowledged the inconvenience caused to the public during the ...

Feb 9, 2025 · "Sri Lanka tasted monkey business in the past," he wrote. "Only in Sri Lanka can a group of monkeys fighting inside a power station cause an islandwide power outage," wrote Jamila Husain, editor ...

Feb 9, 2025 · 12.20 : A sudden islandwide power outage has been reported, affecting multiple regions across Sri Lanka. The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has acknowledged the issue and stated that steps are being taken to restore the power supply as soon as possible.

Feb 10, 2025 · Sri Lanka's electricity grid was brought down nationwide on Sunday after monkey business struck a power station south of the capital of Colombo. ... (CEB) between 2010 and 2025. Most industrialists rely on electricity as their primary source of power. Due to this six-to-seven-hour outage, our businesses have suffered massive losses," a ...

Feb 9, 2025 · A monkey caused a major power outage across Sri Lanka by interfering with a grid transformer. The blackout affected many areas and engineers worked to restore electricity. Some regions regained power within three hours, but full restoration remained uncertain.

Dec 9, 2023 · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka experienced an island-wide power outage for several hours Saturday after a system failure in one of the main transmission lines, the country’s power and energy ministry said.

Dec 9, 2023 · Sri Lanka is experiencing a countrywide power outage due to a system failure, a government official said on Saturday.