President writes to Mahanayake Theros regarding electricity tariff revisions

By 2022, 42,950 Buddhist temples and other registered religious and social services in the country are connected to the country’s main power grid. 

The President has also mentioned in his letter that temples and other religious places with high electricity consumption will be identified and a proper study will be done to provide a continuous service for electricity demand management and electricity conservation to those places with the intervention of the government mechanism, under the leadership of the Ministry of Power and Energy.