Uganda: Solar PV project awarded
In depth
Issue 291
- 18 Dec 2014
| 2 minute read
Two consortia have been selected to build, own and operate two solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants with a total capacity of 20MW, under the pilot Global Energy Transfer Feed-in Tariffs (GET FiT) programme (AE 289/8). Uganda’s Simba Telecom in partnership with Italy’s Building Energy and a consortium of Access Power MEA of the United Arab Emirates and Spain’s TSK Electronica will build the country’s first solar projects in the Tororo and Soroti districts in eastern Uganda, at a combined cost of $32.5m, the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) announced on 10 December.
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