Energy Solutions · 2025
UEDCL Takes On Uganda’s Power Distribution Network.
After taking over from Umeme, UEDCL has set out how it intends to stabilise distribution — audits, overload work and system upgrades.
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Energy Solutions · 2024
Karuma Hydropower and the Interconnection Behind It.
The energy minister’s commissioning remarks set out the 600 MW plant and the 400 kV / 132 kV lines that put that power on the grid.
Briefing
What this piece covers.
The commissioning speech for Karuma records three parts of the job: the 600 MW hydropower plant; interconnection to Kawanda, Olwiyo and Lira on 400 kV and 132 kV; and the associated community works. Generation without those lines does not reach the substations that serve the rest of the network.
For contractors and utilities the useful detail is the interconnection, not the ceremony. High-voltage lines, substations and protection are the path from a dam to an operator — the same path energy programmes on this site are built around.
Samanga did not write these articles. The briefing on this page is ours; the original stays on LinkedIn.
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Kenya Tests Oversight of Data-Centre Facilities.
Kenya’s communications regulator is treating data centres more like critical communications infrastructure, with a licence built for networks.
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