Uganda: Wind projects

Uganda’s request to receive $50m from the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Programme (SREP) for low-income countries endorsed by the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) includes $6.8m to support the Rural Electrification Board’s planned wind assessment and two 10MW pilot wind farms. The 2010-15 National Development Plan called for the establishment of a wind energy database after preliminary data suggested particular potential in the northern Karamoja region. The government installed two wind measurement sets in July 2015 and intends to use SREP funds to co-finance wind measurement at six other sites in the north, mostly in Karamoja.