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The long-awaited first phase of Bujagali is finally supplying the grid after a number of setbacks last year, but there are fears that, even if the full 250MW capacity is reached in the next few months, a similar power crisis could recur within two years

The finalisation of agreements to develop Uganda’s oil discoveries remains stuck on the issue of a stabilisation clause in new production-sharing agreements (PSAs) that would protect companies from losses caused by future changes to fiscal terms

Dutch development finance institution FMO has arranged a $24m senior loan for the financing of a 14MW run-of-the-river hydropower project at Kilembe Donors fund small hydro

A government move to cut the subsidy it pays to keep electricity prices low for domestic and industrial consumers has fed into new fears of civil unrest and underlined the burden of paying for imported diesel until the Bujagali IPP eventually comes on stream

India’s Essar Oil, which owns 50% of Kenya’s Mombasa refinery, has offered to build Uganda’s planned refinery. “There has been a big oil find in Uganda. To process it, they

With power cuts causing riots in Kampala, and the start-up of a long-awaited hydro-electric power project delayed for the fourth time this year, Uganda is in for a difficult dry season, writes Adrian J Browne

President Yoweri Museveni on 23 November formally inaugurated the 6.6MW

Petroleum commissioner Ernest Rubondo has told the ad hoc parliamentary committee investigating the oil sector that “close to 80” applications had been received from international oil companies looking to secure blocks in Uganda’s open acreage. Rubondo said companies were targeting blocks,

The government’s attempts to disregard parliament’s oil resolutions, and to weaken the capacity of a corruption probe committee, have met with considerable opposition, underlining the capacity of domestic politics to complicate Uganda’s passage to becoming an oil producer, writes Adrian J Browne

The government’s attempts to disregard parliament’s oil resolutions, and to weaken the capacity of a corruption probe committee, have met with considerable opposition, underlining the capacity of domestic politics to complicate Uganda’s passage to becoming an oil producer

Petroleum commissioner Ernest Rubondo has told the ad hoc parliamentary committee investigating the oil sector that “close to 80” applications had been received from international oil companies looking to secure blocks in Uganda’s open acreage

The Energy Water and Sanitation Authority is seeking expressions of interest for the construction of a 220kV transmission line between Mirama

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The long-awaited Bujagali dam is due to start up its first 50MW unit in November, helping to alleviate the country’s electricity shortage.

Normally good relations with the International Monetary Fund have been restored after a brief hiatus. The IMF had announced in February, in language dry even by its standards, that Uganda “did not complete the first review under the three-year Policy Support Instrument (PSI)”.