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Sri Lanka’s 2023 hydrogen roadmap set its first phase twelve tasks, from safety standards to pilots, and that phase ended in 2025. The policy approved in June 2026 promises safety rules and an updated roadmap within a year of an effective date it leaves blank. What the record shows.
The Ceylon Electricity Board tendered 160 MW of battery storage across sixteen named grid substations, and Cabinet approved the award of all sixteen. February’s awards covered twelve. By May the developers’ own figure was thirteen, and nobody reported the thirteenth. Three sites have no answer.
Parliament voted Rs 17,213 million for electricity bill relief. No account says how it reaches a bill, and the regulator’s Q4 tariff file is empty
Europe’s first CSRD statements drew as much traffic as the financials. Investors were 18.3% of their readers, employees 32.6%. What it means for SLFRS S1.
Net Metering and Net Accounting are shut to new rooftop solar. Net Plus runs 12 years, not 20, and pays Rs 17.11–23.11 a unit for exports.
Sri Lanka’s interim power plan reaches 68% renewables by 2029. PUCSL has sent it back with 14 recommendations and warns it may miss the 2030 oil exit.
Sri Lanka’s Act No. 15 of 2026 creates extended producer responsibility, but names no goods, targets or fees. The 40% and 50% figures are not law.
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2102 took force 18 September 2026. Solid tyres leave EUDR scope — justified by Commission arithmetic about retreads.
UCSL’s tariff assumes furnace oil at Rs 210 a litre. The CPC now charges Rs 248. Three price supports expire before Sri Lanka’s Q4 tariff takes effect.
POLICY & REGULATION · 8 min read The EU Asked India and Sri Lanka for the Same Climate Promise. Only One of Them Can Lose Its Tariffs Over It Both Article 16.6 of the EU-India Free Trade Agreement and the EU’s new GSP regulation stipulate that the Paris Agreement must be implemented. In India’s case, … Read more