Signed with then President Wickremesinghe last May, the agreement included the construction of two wind farms on Mannar Island and in the village of Pooneryn. The Dissanayake administration has pulled

Last month, the government said it had begun talks with the Adani Group to trim the cost of power from the projects, estimated to cost a total of $1 billion, to about $0.06 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) or less, versus an earlier figure of $0.08.

"Adani Green Energy has conveyed its Board's decision to respectfully withdraw from further engagement in the renewable energy (RE) wind energy project and two transmission projects in Sri Lanka," the