Hello STEEMIT. We’ll continue our journey on “All about Uganda” and discuss electricity supply in Uganda. Those who missed out on our previous topic, water supply in Uganda, please check out our last post.
Electricity supply in Uganda began with the enactment of the Electricity Act in 1999. The enactment of the Electricity Act resulted in the foundation of the Electricity Regulatory Authority(ERA) to regulate Uganda’s electricity sector. Under ERA’s regulation, electricity generation, transmission, and distribution was made possible and through endless progress during the last 15 years, Uganda was able to increase its electricity supply from 3.0% in 1990 to 20.4% in 2014. Nevertheless, electricity is still only available to 20% of the whole population, not to mention the urban-rural discrepancy within the 20%(electricity supply in the rural areas remains at 10%.)
What’s worse is that during RUN’s last visit in Uganda this January, we suffered from blackouts every single day throughout the 2 weeks’ stay. It took at least 1-2 hours, and sometimes even a whole day to recover. Uganda’s overdependence on hydropower has been pointed out as the main problem, and is currently in a struggle to increase other sources of energy generation.
The story continues...
very sad uganda area, you have come to the power crisis area friend @runorg, very difficult for sure with such circumstances