Electricity

January 21, 2023

Uganda Scraps Take-or-Pay Contracts In Electricity Industry

By Jeff Mbanga Uganda has scrapped take-or-pay contracts within its electricity industry, a business incentive that has been at the centre of attracting more than $5 billion in the country’s power generation segment over the last 15 years. The take-or-pay model – a concept that allows a generator of…

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5 min read

January 9, 2023

Uganda Can Play Leading Role In Green Energy Revolution – Don

By Assad Mugenyi Uganda must seriously invest in research and development or it will be left behind in the green energy revolution, Dr Justus Masa, a Kyambogo University don, has said. We interviewed Masa following his run of speaking engagements at various public forums dedicated to energy solution…

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6 min read

December 22, 2022

Will Umeme Honour Its Obligations With Barely Three Years Of Its Contract Left?

In 2020, Umeme, Uganda’s largest power distributor, unveiled an $83.3 million capital expenditure plan that was meant to address six critical areas of the company’s business that year. According to Selestino Babungi, the company’s managing director, these vital areas included addressing energy losse…

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6 min read

December 12, 2022

Uganda National Electricity Company To Replace Umeme, Eskom

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development intends to create the Uganda National Electricity Company Limited (UNECL) to take over the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity after the government decided against renewing the concessionary contracts of Eskom Limited and Umeme Limi…

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3 min read

November 16, 2022

Electricity Infrastructure Vandalism Increasing Power Blackouts In Uganda

The country will continue experiencing electricity loadshedding of about 104MW until the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) completes the construction of temporary structures to restore damaged transmission lines, says Okaasai Sidronius Opolot, the Minister of State for Energy. …

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3 min read

November 10, 2022

Europe’s Failure to Meet Its Climate Goals Should Not Be Africa’s Problem

By Yoweri Kaguta Museveni News from Europe that a vast windfarm is being demolished to make way for a new open-pit coal mine is the reprehensible double standard we in Africa have come to expect. As Europeans switch their coal-fired plants back on while still demanding fossil-fuel generation remains…

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5 min read

November 1, 2022

REC22 Hopes To Help Uganda Realize Clean Energy Goals

Uganda will host its second annual renewable energy conference and expo – the REC22 – this week, as it continues its quest to increase the contribution of renewables to its energy mix. The conference, to be held under the theme ‘Renewable Energy for Sustainable Industrialization, Inclusive Growth an…

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3 min read

October 27, 2022

Bateebe: Uganda Needs $4 Billion To Connect Everyone To Electricity

In August 2022, Irene Bateebe made one year as the permanent secretary in the ministry of energy and mineral development (MEMD). At the time, the sector was undergoing a number of reforms in the electricity and mining sector. In an interview with Deep Earth International, Bateebe told us her experie…

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11 min read

October 10, 2022

Uganda Needs $300m To Take Over Eskom, Umeme Business

Uganda will need to pay Eskom Uganda Limited $85 million as part of the conditions for winding up the 20-year concession of managing the Kiira and Nalubaale power projects. The concession is set to end in March 2023, and our sources in the ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development say t…

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3 min read

August 17, 2022

Uganda Braces For Load Shedding As Electricity Generation At Isimba Halts Temporarily

Parts of Uganda are set to experience electricity load shedding for the next month or so following the temporary shutdown of the 183MW Isimba Hydropower Plant in Kayunga District on August 8, 2022. According to a Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD) statement, the shutdown was undertake…

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2 min read

June 27, 2022

UK’s Gridworks To Invest $90m In Uganda’s Electricity Transmission

Following an agreement with the government of Uganda, Gridworks, a UK development and investment platform will provide up to $90 million in equity funding for the refurbishment of various substations in Uganda to help address the capacity constraints at four important spots on the national grid. Ear…

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May 27, 2022

Uganda Needs $10 Billion To Build Nuclear Power Plant

Uganda will need at least $10 billion to build, own and operate its proposed Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), a top government official has told us. Expected to be commissioned in 2032, the country will use the sovereign-based model where a state nuclear company will be formed and handed ownership of the …

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3 min read