Uganda: Solar scheme construction to start in March

France’s Eren Renewable Energy and Dubai-based Access Infra Africa said on 17 February that construction of their 10MW solar photovoltaic project at Soroti would begin in March. The developers describe the project, which has an estimated cost of $19m, as the largest privately funded solar power plant in sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa. The project is the first to be developed under Uganda’s Global Energy Transfer Feed-in Tariffs (GET FiT) scheme managed by Germany’s KfW Development Bank and Uganda’s Electricity Regulatory Agency.