Any young Electrical Engineering graduates specialized in electrical power has the dream of joining country’s state-owned Electricity Utility Ceylon Electricity Board – The CEB.
We were no exception and upon graduation in late seventies and early eighties, we joined the CEB as Electrical Engineers, starting a long career which lasted more than three decades in the organization.
It was barely 10 years since CEB was established as the successor to Department of Government Electrical Undertakings when we joined the CEB and the total peak demand then was mere 400 MW with electricity supply penetration of less than 15% of the population of Sri Lanka; yet the country had very ambitious plans for expansion of electricity system with the massive Mahaweli River Multi-purpose Development Scheme in 1980’s adding nearly 600 MW of hydropower to the CEB system.
We grew up with the system, starting as young engineers involved in design, erection and commissioning of the new additions, operating and maintaining them and later managing the stations as engineers-in-charge. Starting with Hydro Power Plants and 66kV transmission lines CEB system kept on expanding adding more Hydro, Diesel, Gas Turbine Combined Cycle and Coal Power Plants to the present-day network of 4000 MW installed capacity, 132kV and 220kV Transmission Network and a well-spread Distribution Network providing 99% access. Together, we grew in maturity and gained more and more experience in all aspects of a large electricity utility from planning to implementation to operation and maintenance in the technical perspective and managing massive human resource standing at nearly 22,000 across the country and most importantly, managing finances of Sri Lanka’s largest organization with an annual budget in excess of Rs. 200 billion (USD 1.2 billion)
We all, with a wealth of experience, have now grouped together to share our knowledge and experience to enhance the quality and quantity of the Electricity Industry which we love so much!
So we are – ENPOWER ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS (PVT) LTD., (ENPOWER – ENergy+POWER) a limited liability company incorporated in Sri Lanka. We are a new company but we are loaded with expertise and experience to provide services to any client.
Our Specialties
The fundamental requirement for any good electricity system is to do planning in proven and scientific manner, timely implementation of the plans while ensuring quality and economy and adopting efficient operation and maintenance practices.
Our specialties are in electricity utility sector and services covering all these main areas as well as other supporting services such as system studies for protection coordination, load flow etc. as well as regulatory affairs and contract negotiations.
Our principal associates have a wealth of knowledge and experience in most areas and we also have the luxury to have access to many experts from CEB who are officially permitted to provide their services on a part-time basis covering entire electricity sector.
Our Principal Resources
M C Wickramasekara
B Sc Eng, C Eng, MIET, MIEEE
Electrical and Electronics Engineering graduate and Chartered Electrical Engineer, retired as General Manager of CEB after 38 years of service in September 2016. Specialized in Electrical Power Generation including planning, designing, procuring, implementation operation and maintenance, Procurement and managing IPP power plants including contact negotiations, overall human resource and financial management of large electrical power utilities.
B S Tilakasena
B Sc Eng, C Eng, FIESL,MIET, MIEEE, LLB, Attorney At Law
Electrical and Electronics Engineering graduate and Chartered Electrical Engineer, plus a Law graduate and an Attorney-at-Law, retired as an Additional General Manager of CEB after 38 years of service in April 2016. Specialized in many aspects of operation of a large electrical power utility including, procurement, operation and maintenance power generation equipment, structuring and managing IPP power projects, including contact negotiations, project implementation. Demand-side management, tariffs and regulatory aspects of managing large electrical power utilities are also in the experience portfolio.
A K Samarasinghe
B Sc Eng, C Eng, MIESL, MIEEE
Electrical Engineering graduate and Chartered Electrical Engineer retired as General Manager of CEB after 36 years of service in January 2019. Specialized in Electrical Power Generation including planning, designing, procuring, implementation, rehabilitation, asset management, operation and maintenance, contract negotiations, overall human resource and financial management of large electrical power utilities. Also has very specialized knowledge in modern maintenance practices such as condition monitoring and predictive maintenance, design and implementation of complex protection and control systems including retrofitting modern AVRs and Governing systems of large generators, balancing of large rotating machines etc.
S R K Gamage
M Sc Eng, MFE, B Sc Eng, C Eng, MIESL
Electrical Engineering Graduate with Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and Financial Economics, Chartered Electrical Engineer with over 38 years’ experience as an Electrical engineer in many capacities nationally and internationally. Retired as a Deputy General Manager of CEB after 34 years’ service in April 2019. Specialized in the fields of Electricity distribution, Distribution system Planning, Distribution Automation, Electricity facility Construction & Maintenance, Geographic Information Systems, Renewable energy, Project management, Strategy development & Implementation and has served in utility environment for over 30 years.
G A Jayantha
B Sc Eng, C Eng, MIESL
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Graduate and Charted Electrical Engineer retired as an Additional General Manager of CEB after 34 years of service in February 2019. Specialized in Electrical Power Generation including Condition Monitoring and testing of High Voltage Equipment, Project Specification, contract negotiation, design review, supervision and commissioning testing of new and refurbishment of Hydro plants. In addition to the in-house resources, services of experts in generation and transmission planning with in-depth knowledge and expertise in long term and short term planning of large electrical utilities using proven planning software packages such as Wien Automatic System Planning (WASP) Package and in designing and implementation of modern power system protection systems are available on assignment basis.
