By Aminah Elizabeth Namuddu Evidence demonstrates that electricity access has the potential to increase income, improve health, education, and decrease poverty. Access to quality and reliable electricity services creates potential for small business ventures and enhances the delivery of social services such as education and health, which ultimately triggers the socio-economic transformation that the Country…
The Principal Security Officer at Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) Ronald Bogere has revealed that persons involved in the vandalism of electricity infrastructure will be arrested and charged with terrorism. He made remarks while addressing security officers from Police CID, RDCs and ISO during a training workshop organised by Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) on…
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…
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…
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…
The implementation of the Grid Expansion and Reinforcement Project (GERP) in West Nile is well underway. Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) begun stringing the transmission cables on the 67km Kole-Gulu stretch under Phase One of the Grid Expansion and Reinforcement Project (GERP). The GERP is also known as the Kole-Gulu-Nebbi-Arua Transmission Line construction project.…
The retired Archbishop of the Church of Uganda His Eminence Luke Orombi has hailed power distributors WENRECO for doing every thing possible to ensure steady power supply in West Nile. Orombi, who was speaking to journalists at his retirement home in Goli village, Kumi District revealed that the power problems currently being faced by people…
The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) has pledged continued support to the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) . This happened on Tuesday, July 5, 2022 when the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) hosted the newly inaugurated board of UETCL on a courtesy visit at ERA House, Plot 5C-1 Third Street Lugogo, Kampala. The Minister of Energy…
Members of Parliament on the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources are probing allegations of mismanagement and corruption at Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Ltd (UETCL). While interfacing with the board members of UETCL on Thursday, 17 March 2022, the Committee Chairperson, Hon. Emmanuel Otaala expressed concern about the mismanagement of the company resulting from a…
Uganda had suffered a nationwide blackout on Saturday, the second in less than a month. Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited, which is responsible for bulk purchase and transmission of power countrywide, said “We have lost transmission across the nation which has caused a nationwide blackout, please bear with us as we investigate the cause and…
