Ministry of Power and Energy

The Ministry of Power and Energy^[1] (Sinhala: විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය; Tamil: மின்சக்தி மற்றும் வலுசக்தி அமைச்சு) is a cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka responsible for power and renewable energy. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on power and renewable energy and other subjects which come under its purview.^[2]

Ministry of Power and Energy

විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය மின்சக்தி மற்றும் வலுசக்தி அமைச்சு
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters	437, Galle Road, Colombo 3 6°54′4.90″N 79°51′17.60″E
Annual budget	Rs 0.5 billion (2016, recurrent) Rs 0.8 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible	Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Minister of Power & Energy
Ministry executive	Ms. Wasantha Perera, Ministry Secretary
Child agencies	Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) Lanka Coal Company (Pvt.) Ltd. Lanka Electricity Company (LECO) LTL Holdings (Pvt.) Ltd. Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Board Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Regulatory Council Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority
Website	energymin.gov.lk

As of April 2023^[update], the current Minister of Power and Energy is Kanchana Wijesekera.^[3] The ministry's secretary is (Mr) M.P.D.U.K. Mapa Pathirana.

Ministers

Ministers of Power & Energy

Name		Portrait	Party	Took office	Left office	Head of government		Ministerial title	Refs
	Maithripala Senanayake		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	1947	8 December 1959		W. Dahanayake	Minister of Transport and Power	[4]
	Montague Jayawickrama		United National Party	23 March 1960	1960		Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Posts, Works and Power	[4]
	C. P. de Silva		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 July 1960			Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Agriculture, Land, Irrigation and Power	[5]
			Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party	March 1965			Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Land, Irrigation and Power	[6][7]
	Maithripala Senanayake		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	31 May 1970			Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Irrigation, Power and Highways	[8][9]
	Gamini Dissanayake		United National Party	23 July 1977			J. R. Jayewardene		[10][11][12]
	D. B. Wijetunga		United National Party					Minister of Power and Energy	[13]
	Festus Perera		United National Party	18 February 1989	28 March 1990		Ranasinghe Premadasa		[14]
	K. D. M. C. Bandara		United National Party	30 March 1990					[15][16]
	Anuruddha Ratwatte		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 August 1994			Dingiri Banda Wijetunga	Minister of Irrigation, Power and Energy	[17][18]
				19 October 2000			Chandrika Kumaratunga	Minister of Power and Energy	[19][20]
				14 September 2001				Minister of Lands, Irrigation and Power	[21][22]
	Karu Jayasuriya		United National Party	12 December 2001				Minister of Power and Energy	[23][24]
	Susil Premajayanth		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	10 April 2004					[25][26][27]
	John Seneviratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 November 2005			Mahinda Rajapaksa		[28][29][30]|[31][32][33]
	Champika Ranawaka		Jathika Hela Urumaya	23 April 2010					[34][35][36][37]
	Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	28 January 2013					[38]
	Champika Ranawaka		Jathika Hela Urumaya	12 January 2015	17 August 2015		Maithripala Sirisena		[39][40][41][42]
	Ranjith Siyambalapitiya		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	4 September 2015				Minister of Power and Renewable Energy	[43][44][45]
	Ravi Karunanayake		United National Party	20 December 2018				Minister of Power, Energy Business Development	[46][44][45]
	Mahinda Amaraweera		Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna	22 November 2019			Gotabaya Rajapaksa	Minister of Power and Energy	[47]
	Dullas Alahapperuma		Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna	12 August 2020				Minister of Power	[48]
	Gamini Lokuge		Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna	16 August 2021				Minister of Power	[49]
	Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi		Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna	3 March 2022				Minister of Power	[50]
	Kanchana Wijesekera		Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna	14 May 2022				Minister of Power & Energy	[51]
				22 July 2022	23 September 2024		Ranil Wickremesinghe	Minister of Power & Energy
	Anura Kumara Dissanayake		National People's Power	24 September 2024	Present		Anura Kumara Dissanayake	Ministry of Power and Energy

Secretaries

Power Secretaries

Name	Took office	Left office	Title	Refs
M. M. C. Ferdinando	25 April 2010		Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy	[52][53]
(Dr.) B. M. S. Batagoda	19 January 2015		Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy	[54]
	8 September 2015		Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy	[55][56][57]
(Ms.) Wasantha Perera	28 November 2019		Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy
	14 August 2020		Secretary to the Ministry of Power
K D S Ruwanchandra	26 April 2022		Secretary to the Ministry of Power
M P D U K Mapa Pathirana	22 July 2022		Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy

See also

• Electricity sector in Sri Lanka
• India–Sri Lanka HVDC Interconnection
• List of power stations in Sri Lanka

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External links

• powermin.gov.lk