Effect of ICT to improve the private power generation sector in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Sri Lankan government, even with a ever changing political situation of the country, has a keen interest in introducing advanced Information and Communications Technologies to all the sectors such as education, industrial, transportation, health, electricity and etc. By getting the private sector participation to economic development of the country, government aims to improve all sectors through modem advanced technologies like ICT. This assignment aims 10 find out that how ICT involves in the private power generation sector and how ICT can improve this sector in Sri Lanka. Involvement of ICT in private power generation sector could mainly be considered in two areas. i .e .ICT involvement among the technical stall & their operations and ICT involvement among the administrative staff & the»r operations, in PPG sector. Questionnaires and individual interviews were used to gather data from the selected sample space. It was found that the usage of ICT in the private power generation sector is much lower compared to state owned power generation sector, and further can be improved Private sector thermal power plants use advanced ICT technology compared to the other private sector power generation plant such as Dendro. and mini-hydro. Small-scale mini-hydro and Dendro power plants use very low amount of advanced ICT technology. because of their inherent problems and barriers.