Uganda: First hydro plant connected under GET FiT

The first hydropower project to be developed under Uganda’s Global Energy Transfer Feed-in Tariffs (GET FiT) scheme was connected to the grid in mid-March. The 6.5MW Muvumbe run-of-river plant in Kabale district in Western region was developed by Sri Lanka-based small hydropower project developer Vidullanka through its fully-owned subsidiary, Muvumbe Hydro (Uganda) Limited, and involved an investment of $13.5m, the company said in a 14 March filing to the Colombo Stock Exchange.