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Minister Nankabirwa Launches Hybrid Electricity Customer Connection Financing Framework

The Minister of Energy and Mineral development Hon. Dr. Ruth Nankabirwa Seentamu has today officially launched the hybrid electricity customer connection credit framework. During the launch, Nankabirwa revealed that the Uganda Bureau of Statistics in 2019 (UBOS, 2019) conducted a study and it was observed that one of the main obstacles to households getting connected…

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2023 Tariff Review Process: This Is What You Missed At ERA’s Annual Tariff Review Public Hearing

Uganda’s Power regulator, the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) has conducted an annual public hearing aimed at getting views in the process to determine 2023 power tariffs. Engineer Ziria Waako Tibalwa the ERA Chief Executive Officer says, in the Fourth Quarter of the year ending 2022, the Authority received applications for review of Tariffs and Budget…

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Vision 2040: Gov’t Constructs More 14 New Power Projects To Boost Economic Development

As one of the ways to attain the projected National Development Plan and Vision 2040 and to boost economic development, the government, through the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) is implementing 14 new power projects in various parts of the country, in a bid to expand the national Transmission Grid. The main objective of…

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ERA Boss Eng. Waako On Why Industrial Consumers Pay Lower Power Tariffs Than Other Consumers

Although the Electricity Regulation Authority (ERA) acknowledges all power consumers, the demand for electricity by manufacturers remains 70%, that of other categories of consumers stands at 30%, yet the disparity in the tariffs remains a contentious issue, especially among consumers. Under Sections 10 and 75 of the Electricity Act 1999 as Amended, ERA approves the…

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Parliament Approves UGX1.2 Trillion Loan For Electricity Connections

The Parliament of Uganda has approved another request by the Government to borrow up to US$331.5 million approximately Shillings 1.242 trillion from the International Development Association– IDA of the World Bank Group to support the electricity access scale-up project. The legislators passed the unanimous resolution following a motion moved by the Minister of State for…

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Countering Climatic Change: How ERA’s Lower Power Tariffs Reduce Use Of Firewood, Charcoal

In a bid to counter the adverse impact of climatic change in Uganda, power regulator Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) in December 2021 introduced a Cooking Tariff known as Declining Block Tariff, which would enable domestic consumers connected on the national power grid to use electricity for cooking, instead of charcoal and firewood. The main objective…

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Energy Ministry Announces New Tough Measures To Fight Vandalism Of Power Infrastructure

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD) has unveiled stringent measures to fight against the vice of vandalizing power cables and electricity infrastructure, which costs the government over Shs 2Bn in repairs. The new tough measures have been issued by the State Minister for Energy Hon. Okaasai Sidronius Opolot (MP), who says the decision…

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Safety First: ERA On Mission To Train, Certify Qualified Electricians

Properties worth billions of shillings and lives have over the years been lost in Uganda as a result of illegal or poorly done electrical installations done by unqualified electricians. As one of the solutions to this problem, the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) launched a campaign to train and grant certification only to qualified electricians, in…

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