This comes as the company plans to switch on Karuma Dam Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) on Feb.08 flagged off some of its staff to Zambia to acquire more skills and enhance the institution’s capacity to manage operations of electricity generation facilities countrywide. …
Read More »Karuma dam may not meet June deadline: Auditor General
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The commissioning of the 600-megawatt hydropower station by the end of 2022, is in doubt as several related programs are far from being concluded. These include substations in different parts of the country as well as transmission lines that are supposed to evacuate the electricity …
Read More »Court quashes UGX9Bn award to Karuma power project land claimants
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Court of Appeal has quashed the decision by the High Court to award 9.3 Billion Shillings as compensation to claimants of land where the government is currently constructing the Karuma Hydro Power Project. A panel of three justices Christopher Izama Madrama, Irene Mulyagonja, and …
Read More »Karuma Dam completion date hangs in balance
Uganda has set mid next year as the date for commissioning Karuma Hydropower Dam on the upstream of River Nile but there are now new concerns that the facility may not be ready as planned owed to a slow project implementation. Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ruth Nankabirwa, the …
Read More »Why Karuma Dam commissioning has been extended again
Contractor, Ministry of Energy say it will be ready in November 2020 Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The commissioning of the 600MW Karuma Hydropower Dam has again been extended to November 2020 to allow the contractor deliver a fit for purpose project. This is the third time that Karuma …
Read More »PAC probes Isimba, Karuma dam rock payment omission
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Friday tasked Ministry of Energy officials to explain the omission of payment for rock in the contract for construction of Isimba and Karuma Hydro Power Dams. The officials led by the Permanent Secretary Robert …
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By Independent Team Museveni blamed as commission agents, government officials conspire to squeeze money out of project Deputy Registrar John Eudes Keitirima’s chambers in the High Court building in Kampala were on Sept. 6 the scene of an interesting spectacle. A construction company, Salini SpA, was seeking an order to …
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