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NBS: Officials from the Uganda Electricity Generation Company would leave nothing to chance during an inspection of the Isimba dam in Kamuli. The officials who put the contractors on the spot over shoddy construction work, where quick to whip out the contract and read it out when the contractors attempted …

Karuma, Isimba to cost extra Shs 1.8 trillion: An investigation by The Independent reveals how if Energy Ministry officials and those at Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd were properly supervising dam construction instead of bickering over control, they could have saved the country enough money to build another hydropower dam. …

Karuma, Isimba mess: President Museveni directed officials at the Energy Ministry to hand over implementation powers of the billion dollar Karuma and Isimba projects to power generator, UEGCL, in a bid save them but the officials remained adamant weeks later.  Energy ministry officials defy Museveni on botched billion dollar project …

Cabinet has approved a $11.2million loan (sh36billion) from Kuwait Fund for power distribution and extension in six districts. Minister of Information and National Guidance Jim Muhwezi said the project will introduce 285km of new power lines in Kasese, Kibaale , Nebbi, Bushenyi, Rukungiri and Kiryandongo. The Ministry of Finance, Planning …

Norwegian firm SN Power set to consolidate position in Ugandan economy, writes Isaac Khisa SG Bujagali Holdings Ltd, a company incorporated in Mauritius and which partially owned interests in the 250MW Bujagali hydropower project is bowing out. The firm, an affiliate of Sithe Global Power, part of Blackstone Group, the …

Caracas, Venezuela | AFP Venezuelan workers will get Fridays off for the next two months as part of an emergency plan to save electricity, the president said. Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves but its economy is a mess, with rampant inflation, shortages of goods as basic as …

SN Power Company from Norway are set to take over the development of the Bujagali hydro-power station in Jinja from SITHE GLOBAL Company. The Norwegian hydro power investors led by the Chief Executive Officer of SN Power Company Torger Lien on Thursday briefed President Yoweri Museveni on their plans. Museveni assured …

By Agnes E. Nantaba Godfrey Turyahikayo is the executive director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA). He spoke to Agnes E. Nantaba about their operations and other pertinent issues in the electricity sector. What are the key elements in your management style as a manager? Most important of all is …

By Nicole Namubiru Benon Mutambi (PhD) is the executive director of the Electricity Regulatory Authority.  He spoke to Nicole Namubiru about their mandate and other pertinent issues in the electricity sector. What are the key elements of your management philosophy as a CEO? Effective leadership is at the core of …

By Andrew M. Mwenda But who benefits most from subsidies to UMEME? A cabinet sitting on Wednesday Jan. 11 discussed increasing electricity tariffs by 40 percent. Cabinet should remove these subsidies altogether because they are not economically sustainable and benefit the rich at the expense of poor citizens. Over the …