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E-bikes with the Plant-in-Charges
Vidullanka PLC, a forerunner in the nation’s renewable energy spectrum has taken further steps to build resilience to face the current crisis by adopting to alternative solutions and extending its green initiatives.
Wooden fired stove |
Having developed a culture for alternative solutions, Vidullanka enabled its employees to switch from petrol bike to E- bike. This was officially commenced by handing over E bikes to all its mini hydro power plants supervisors in Sri Lank. In addition, Vidullanka decided to provide financial support to employees to purchase an E-bike and subsidise the travel cost by providing free of cost charging of the E-bike at the power plants. This will help to save money spent on fuel as well the valuable time they waste at fuel stations.
This worthy initiative was directed not only for the benefit of the employees but also to benefit the greater community by reducing its consumption of fuel.
If E-bikes continue to surge in popularity, they may finally provide one of the best solutions to current crisis as well as workers dissatisfied with the hassles of searching for fuel.
Furthermore, considering the LP gas crisis, all power plants are supplied with a wooden fired stoves to replace the LP gas cooker. The stove which was developed under NERDS is very efficient wooden fired stove requiring very limited quantity of wood. The cooking is done in quick time and saves much hassle of wasting time looking to buy LP gas.