Colombo: An introing monkey in a sub-station of the Sri Lanka electrical grid brought on a normal blackout at island on Sunday (9 February), stated authorities officers.
The present interruption started round 11.30 am native time (Singapore time).
“A monkey got here into contact with our grid transformer who brought on an imbalance within the system,” journalists stated to the Minister of Energy Kumara Jayakody.
The intrusion befell in a suburb of South Colombo, he stated.
The energy has been utterly restored all through the nation at about 18:00 now native time, based on a Sri Lankan News Outlet Mirror journalist. The interruption additionally brought on interruptions of the water provide.
The Sri Lanka needed to endure months of electrical energy blackout in the summertime of 2022 when the nation dived into an financial disaster.
The gas stations completed petrol and diesel, forcing the thermal energy crops to ration of electrical energy at 13 hours a day.
