October 20, Sri Lanka’s energy minister briefed parliament on the October 17 nationwide blackout. The government has launched an inquiry into maintenance scheduled during low demand and high renewable output, and how a single generating unit’s trip escalated into a system-wide outage. The minister stated that controlled generation before the outage totalled 1,137 MW: 516 MW of coal and 621 MW of hydropower, alongside roughly 1,700 MW of unmonitored, predominantly solar generation. The government