Presidents of Tanzania, Uganda open joint hydropower plant
Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Samia Suluhu commission 14MW run-of-river plant on Kagera River bordering Tanzania and Uganda
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Uganda, Kampala: Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Samia Suluhu commission 14MW run-of-river plant on Kagera River bordering Tanzania and Uganda
Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Samia Suluhu of Tanzania commissioned the Kikagati-Murongo hydropower project this week. The 14 MW run-of-river hydropower plant is located in southwest Uganda, on the Kagera River, which forms a natural border between Tanzania and Uganda, about 320 km from the capital Kampala.
The power plant was constructed under a bilateral agreement signed in 2015 and is the first cross-border infrastructure project by both countries.
The plant was constructed by Kikagati Power Company Limited, a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) fully owned by the $200 M Africa Renewable Energy Fund managed by Berkeley Energy.
The $87 M project reached financial close in 2019. According to the FMO, the hydropower plant will generate about 113 GWh clean energy every year, supplying power to 233,489 people.
The project is part of the EU’s Global Energy Transfer Feed-in Tariff (GetFit) programme which aims to support East African countries’ transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient development path to growth, poverty reduction, and climate change mitigation.
Source: Energy & Utilities
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