- Sri Lanka's national grid is so outdated that even a monkey can cause an islandwide blackout - Govt. calls for an urgent report over yesterday's power outage - Probe ongoing to determine if a ...

Energy firms will be able to build their own connections to the grid, confirms National Grid's electricity system operator.

'A monkey has come into contact with our grid transformer, causing an imbalance in the system,' Kumara Jayakody told local reporters. 'Engineers are attending to it to try and restore the service ...

Citing Section 6.2.3.4 of the Philippine Grid Code, NGCP said that in instances where there is an unplanned outage of a plant but the system remains stable, manual corrective intervention should ...

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 ...