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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmrizmy" data-source="post: 26544378" data-attributes="member: 12363">මේක බලන්න මයේ අම්ම <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnakam_Power_Station" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnakam_Power_Station</a><h3>Early history</h3>In 1947 the Department of Industries in Ceylon agreed to meet the electricity demand of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffna_peninsula" target="_blank">Jaffna peninsula</a>, which at that time stood at only 370 kW, from the power station at Kankesanthurai cement factory.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnakam_Power_Station#cite_note-Fernando-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> From 1950 the peninsula was supplied by an isolated Medium Voltage (MV) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission" target="_blank">power transmission</a> network operated by the Department of Government Electrical Undertakings.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnakam_Power_Station#cite_note-UN-3" target="_blank">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnakam_Power_Station#cite_note-Yoganathan-4" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnakam_Power_Station#cite_note-SARIEI-5" target="_blank">[5]</a> At the time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffna" target="_blank">Jaffna</a> was the only major town on the peninsula with electricity supply.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnakam_Power_Station#cite_note-Fernando-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> Demand for electricity in the peninsula grew as other towns were connected to the electricity network and with increasing demand from industries, such as Kankesanthurai cement factory, and from agriculture.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnakam_Power_Station#cite_note-Fernando-2" target="_blank">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnakam_Power_Station#cite_note-UN-3" target="_blank">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnakam_Power_Station#cite_note-MPEA-6" target="_blank">[6]</a> By the mid 1950s demand on the peninsula stood at 1,500 kW and was expected to increase to 2,000 kW.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnakam_Power_Station#cite_note-Fernando-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> Jaffna peninsula was not connected to the national grid and as such could not benefit from Ceylon's growing hydroelectric generation.</blockquote>

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