{"id":9270,"date":"2025-02-14T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/monkey-blamed-for-nationwide-blackout-as-sri-lanka-scrambles-to-restore-power\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T04:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T04:00:57","slug":"monkey-blamed-for-nationwide-blackout-as-sri-lanka-scrambles-to-restore-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/monkey-blamed-for-nationwide-blackout-as-sri-lanka-scrambles-to-restore-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey blamed for nationwide blackout as Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            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 disrupted supply to the island\u2019s 22 million people.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            An outage lasting six hours on Sunday was blamed by power minister, Kumara Jayakody, on a monkey that disrupted a grid station in a Colombo suburb. No power cuts were implemented on Wednesday, which was a holiday in Sri Lanka.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The animal had come into contact with the transformer at the station, disrupting supply to the entire country. There were no immediate details on whether the monkey survived the incident.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            One-hour power cuts will be implemented from 6 p.m. (12:30 GMT), the island\u2019s state-run power monopoly, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Sunday\u2019s disruption also affected the island\u2019s only 900 MW coal fired power plant, causing it to operate in safe mode, the CEB said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cAll efforts are being made to restore the grid to full capacity but power cuts will be implemented to manage peak demand hours in the night,\u201d the CEB statement added.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Ninety-minute power cuts were implemented on Monday and Tuesday to manage demand. An investigation into the outage was being conducted by the energy ministry.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 disrupted supply to the island\u2019s 22 million people. An outage lasting six hours on Sunday was blamed by power minister, Kumara Jayakody, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}