Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | XINHUA | The Ethiopian government has signed a 24 million U.S. dollars off-grid electrification project contract with three Chinese firms and one South Korean firm, an Ethiopian official said on Tuesday. Speaking to Xinhua, Melaku Taye, Communications Director at Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU), said the …
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Gulu, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Power distributor, Umeme has embarked on stakeholder engagement meetings across the country, starting with Northern Uganda to explain the company’s planned projects aimed at improving power reliability in the communities. The Gulu meetings were held last week. The main objective of the meetings was to inform …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans are expected to pay a little lower for electricity consumption next year following approval of the new end-user tariffs. The base tariffs have been reduced by an average 0.4 percent, with the big consumers mainly industries, benefitting more from this adjustment. Domestic or household …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The power distribution company, Umeme Ltd, is hopeful that the electricity connection policy suspended earlier this month could be restored between June 2021 and June 2022, but this will depend on the success of the current efforts to get funding. The free connection policy, launched …
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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | THE INDEPENDENT | Mongolian President Khaltmaa Battulga on Monday urged the public to better conserve water and electricity. Battulga made the remarks after the Mongolian government on Sunday decided to write off payments for water, heat, electricity and waste for households and organizations (excluding governmental organizations, state …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s main power distribution company, Umeme, has tabled a $219 million (Shs 813.2 billion budget) for the year 2021. Of that, $119 million (Shs 442.4 billion) will be for capital investments in the grid while $60m (Shs 222.4bn) will cater for net operating costs. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A group of organisations advocating for good energy sector performance, have threatened to drag the government to court unless it reverses the decision to suspend the free Electricity Connection Policy, ECP. On Wednesday, the Electricity Regulatory Authority announced the new approved costs of connection of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Anyone seeking to have electricity connected to their premises will now have to pay the full costs, following the scrapping of the subsidy, as well as the free connection policy, by the government. Since 2005, the government has been subsidizing the cost of connecting power …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Sikuda sub-county in Busia district have faulted the president for failing to fulfill pledges on extension and distribution of electricity. In 2007, President Yoweri Museveni while campaigning during the by-election in Samia Bugwe North Constituency pledged to construct power lines from Busitema sub-county …
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Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents in Masafu sub-county of Busia district say they are not ready to vote for National Resistance Movement -NRM party candidates come 2021 over lack of electricity. According to residents, they have previously voted NRM leaders who failed to extend electricity especially in trading …
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