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Sri Lanka Approved Sixteen Battery Sites. Thirteen Are Being Built, And Nobody Reported The Thirteenth
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…
Parliament Voted Rs 17.2 Billion Into Sri Lanka’s Electricity Bills. Nobody Has Published Who Gets It
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…
One Cyclone, Five Ways To Count It: This Year’s CSR Figures Do Not Compare
Seven annual reports treat Cyclone Ditwah relief five ways, from labelled to unstated. Their CSR figures for the year cannot be compared as printed.
Somebody Reads the Sustainability Statement. Fewer Than One in Five Are Investors
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…
Rooftops Already Outstrip The Solar Plan. The Scheme That Built Them Has Closed
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…
Sri Lanka’s Reservoirs Gained 295 Million Cubic Metres in Thirteen Days. Three-Quarters of It Went to the Power Stations
Three dated readings of the Mahaweli Authority's sheet: the power-station block is 40% of national capacity and took 74% of a 295…
Sampath Bank Publishes The Cost Of Every Tank In Wewata Jeewayak, Now In Its 25th Year
Sampath Bank's Annual Report 2025 costs each of 14 Wewata Jeewayak tanks and reconciles to Rs 63.7 Mn. How to read the…
Sri Lanka’s Grid Plan Reaches 68% Renewable by 2029 — and May Still Miss the Regulator’s Own 2030 Oil Deadline
Sri Lanka's interim power plan reaches 68% renewables by 2029. PUCSL has sent it back with 14 recommendations and warns it may…
Sri Lanka Now Has a Producer-Responsibility Law. Nobody Owes Anything Under It Yet
Sri Lanka's Act No. 15 of 2026 creates extended producer responsibility, but names no goods, targets or fees. The 40% and 50%…
GRI Standards Explained: A Beginner’s Guide
The world's most widely used sustainability reporting framework, in plain English — how it is built, how a company actually uses it, and why…
Start reading →ESG vs CSR vs Sustainability: What’s the Difference?
Three terms, used interchangeably in Sri Lankan boardrooms, that mean genuinely different things. One is a company's values. One is a measurement standard. One…
Start reading →What Is ESG? A Complete Guide for Sri Lankan Businesses
Three pillars. One framework. The language of modern business accountability — increasingly, the language regulators, investors, and lenders expect Sri Lankan companies to speak…
Start reading →One Cyclone, Five Ways To Count It: This Year’s CSR Figures Do Not Compare
Seven annual reports treat Cyclone Ditwah relief five ways, from labelled to unstated. Their CSR figures for the year cannot be compared as printed.
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