Power will be interrupted for one hour today between 5 pm and 9:30 pm across the island.
The Ministry of Power announced the power cuts scheduled for today.
The powercuts, which began with an island wide outage on Sunday, have been attributed to multiple reasons by authorities.
Minister of Energy Kumara Jayakody claimed that outage was caused by a monkey clashing with a Panadura grid substation.
The Ceylon Electricity Board claimed the outage was caused by an electricity supply management issue that resulted all three generators at the Lakvijaya Power Plant in Norochcholai to become inoperative.
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Stabilization and NPP National List MP Harshana Suriyapperuma who is tipped to be named the next Finance Ministry Secretary resigned from Parliament today.
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