Electricity from Gliricidia – an entirely Sri Lankan concept
13th January 2012, By Dr Gamini Kulatunga
First promoted by engineer P G Joseph, the former Director of the Renewable Energy Division of the Ministry of Science and Technology, in 1980 in a technical paper presented at the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka, and picked up by the late Vidya Jothi Dr Ray Wijewardene who was in the audience, this provocative idea led to a long standing and persevering effort by these two visionaries to bring this concept to the attention of the authorities of power and energy in the country.
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Electricity from Gliricidia