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[[Lakvijaya Power Plant]] is a proposed 900 megawatt coal-fired power station in the Puttalam District of the Northwestern Province in Sri Lanka. It would be Sri Lanka's first coal power plant. The first phase of the plant is to inject 300 MW to the main grid by 2011, with the second phase injecting another 600MW by 2013. In March 2011, it was reported that the first phase of would be opened on March 22, 2011, adding 300 MW of power to the national grid.<ref>[http://www.colombopage.com/archive_11/Mar21_1300714014JR.php "First phase of Sri Lanka's first coal power plant to be opened tomorrow"] ColomboPage, March 21, 2011.</ref> The Chinese government thorough the Exim Bank of China has provided US$ 455 million for the Lakvijaya plant. The delivery of the first shipment of 65,500 MT of coal at a cost of US$7 million from [[Indonesia and coal|Indonesia]] was expected in the first week of November 2010.<ref>Shirajiv Sirimane, [http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2010/10/24/new40.asp "Two major development projects from November"] Sunday Observer, Oct. 24, 2010.</ref>

It was announced in late March 2011 that Sri Lanka’s first coal power plant Lakvijaya, at Norochcholai, in the Puttalam District began Phase One of its operation. Under Phase One of the project, 300 MW, which amounts to 17% of the national power requirement of the country, was be added to the country's National Grid.<ref>[http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2011/03/20/oostory.asp?sid=20110321_08&imid=President-to-declare.jpg&dt=[March%2021%202011] "President to declare open Lakvijaya tomorrow"] Sunday Observer, March 21, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.colombopage.com/archive_11/Mar21_1300714014JR.php "First phase of Sri Lanka's first coal power plant to be opened tomorrow"] ColomboPage, March 21, 2011.</ref>