Has Sri Lanka’s ailing energy sector finally turned a corner?
Minister of Power & Energy Kanchana Wijesekera says there are reasons to be hopeful after a devastating 2022, when the island nation found itself making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
“We’ve experienced almost everything,” Wijesekera says. “So I think the worst has passed us, and now we are looking at the future.”
The country was hit hard by a catastrophic economic and humanitarian crisis last year, triggered by acute fuel shortages as the Lankan government ran out of dollars to import crude oil.