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The outage was caused by an emergency at a substation south of the country's capital, Colombo.
The animal "came into contact with a power transformer," which caused the accident, the country's energy minister explained.
A massive power outage occurred in Sri Lanka on Sunday, February 9. The country's Energy Minister, Kumara Jayakodi, blamed the blackout on a monkey, the BBC reports.
Hospitals and businesses in the island nation of 22 million people are using generators and inverters due to the disaster.
Authorities have promised to restore power within a few hours, but hospitals and water treatment plants will be connected first.
The energy minister explained that the cause of the blackout was that the monkey "contacted our grid transformer, which caused an imbalance in the system."
The outage was caused by an emergency at a substation south of the capital Colombo, the Electricity Authority said.
