Power
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Cooperatives & Communities
Power outage irks members of Kwania Salon Operators’ Emyooga SACCO
KWANIA – Members of Salon Operators Emyooga SACCOs in Aduku town council in Kwania district are crying over the prolonged power outage that has made them incur losses in the running of…
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Energy & Mining
West Nile leaders warn unreliable power could derail PDM
ARUA – Leaders in West Nile have warned that the intermittent power supply in the sub-region could derail the progress of the Parish Development Model [PDM]. The leaders raised the matter last…
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Energy & Mining
Govt commissions power transmission project in Northern Uganda
NWOYA – The Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Ruth Nankabirwa has commissioned the Olwiyo substation and the 400KV Karuma-Olwiyo and 132KV Karuma-Lira transmission lines to boost power supply in the Greater…
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Energy & Mining
Businesses on verge of shutdown as irregular power supply takes toll on Arua City
ARUA – Several businesses in Arua City could soon close due to the power crisis that has hit the city for the last two weeks. The city has had an irregular power…
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Energy & Mining
Hoima market vendors protest as UMEME cuts off power
HOIMA– Business at Hoima Central Market in Hoima City was paralysed on Tuesday as vendors closed their businesses to protest UMEME’s disconnection of the market from the power grid. During the half-day…
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Cooperatives & Communities
MPs urge gov’t to give farmers electricity for value addition
HOIMA -The Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture has expressed concern about the value addition processing facilities, which were constructed by the government, but are not connected to the electricity grid, making it hard…
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Energy & Mining
Bujagali Hydropower audit: Furious MPs kick minister out of parliament
KAMPALA – The State Minister for Energy Sidronius Opolot alongside other officials were yesterday sent away from parliament by the legislators on the Parliamentary Adhoc Committee investigating the financials of Bujagali Energy…
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Africa
US$550,000 earmarked to conduct study on developing Africa Cloud Ecosystem
LUSAKA-The African Development Bank [AfADB] and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa [COMESA] have signed an agreement for a US$550,000 [about Shs 2 billion] NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility [IPPF]…
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Development
Legislators mesmerised by factory extracting fuel from cassava
NWOYA– Members of the Parliamentary Committee on Trade, Tourism and Industry have commended Bukona Agro Processors Ltd, a local factory in Nwoya district that is manufacturing cooking fuel out of cassava. The…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Power consumers in Brazil turn to cooperatives
SAO PAUL – The high power costs and bundled rules for pricing and surcharges in Brazil are making small and medium consumers turn to a new type of distributed generation from cooperatives.…
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