(Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s electricity regulator has approved a 65% hike in electricity tariffs effective from Wednesday, a government source told Reuters.
The latest hike comes in addition to a 75% hike that came into effect in August last year.
The Sri Lanka Public Utilities Commission, the country’s power regulator, approved the government’s request for a 65% hike on Wednesday, the source said.
(Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe; Writing Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by Alison Williams)
