Sri Lanka, Sept. 8 -- As a key step towards achieving the target of fulfilling 70 percent of the country's electricity demand from renewable energy by 2030, construction work on the Siyambalanduwa 'Rividanavi' Solar Power Park, Sri Lanka's largest renewable energy project, under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Saturday (6).

This massive project, which will add 100 MW of capacity to the national electricity grid, involves an investment of US$ 140 million.

The project, being built on a land area of nearly 500 acres in the Kotiyagala Grama Niladhari Division of the Siyambalanduwa Divisional Secretariat in the Monaragala District, is the first project for which the Sustainable Energy Authority has provided the project...