Sri Lanka
Climate targets: Energy
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38% electrical energy supply from hydro and renewables by 2015
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20% increase in renewable energy percentage of national grid, from 4.8% baseline by 2020 against a 2008 baseline
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Increase the share of electricity generation from renewable energy sources from 50% in 2014 to 60% by 2020 and finally to meet the total demand from renewable and other indigenous energy sources by 2030.
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Increase the electricity generation capacity of the system from 4.050 MW to 6.400 MW by 2025.
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Generate a minimum 1.000 MW of electricity using indigenous gas resources discovered in Mannar basin by 2020.
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Increase generation capacity of low cost thermal power plants fired by natural gas and biomass to 2,000 MW to reduce the generation costs and to diversify generation mix by 2020.
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Reduce the technical and commercial losses of the electricity transmission and distribution network from 11% to 8% by 2020.
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Produce the total petroleum product demand of the country through our own refinery by 2025.
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Reduce the carbon footprint of the energy sector by 5% by 2025.
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60% renewables of electricity supply by 2020, then 100% from renewable and indigenous energy sources by 2030
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5% reduction of carbon footprint of energy sector by 2025 against a 2014 baseline
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Reduce electricity network losses to 8% by 2020
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For further analysis of the NDC, see Sri Lanka country profile on
from the Grantham Research Institute
from the Grantham Research Institute
