In UEGCL\u2019s quest to operationalize its Strategic Plan (2018 -2023) and achieve its Vision \u201cTo be one of the leading power producers in the Great Lakes Region\u201d, On Friday, 6th October, 2019, UEGCL received a 5-year grant support from the Norwegian Government through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The signing of the agreement took place at the Norwegian Embassy in Uganda with Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd represented by Dr. Eng. Harrison E. Mutikanga \u2013 Chief Executive Officer, and the Norwegian Government represented by Her Excellence Ostebo Elin Johansen \u2013 Norwegian Ambassador to Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Grant will specifically support UEGCL\u2019s Strategic Objectives of; Improved Knowledge Skills and Abilities, and Improved Asset management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The overall objective of the Grant code named \u201cHOME\u201d (Hydropower Operation & Maintenance Excellence) programme is to establish UEGCL as a professional operator of the hydropower plants under its jurisdiction in Uganda. The programme will set UEGCL on the course towards Operation & Maintenance excellence of the new Isimba (183MW) and the soon to be commissioned Karuma (600MW) Hydropower Plants through provision of a wide range of capacity building activities for staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Key among the support areas will be support towards equipping the Hydropower Resource Centre at Karuma, and operational and maintenance technical support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While speaking at the signing ceremony, Dr. Eng. Harrison E. Mutikanga \u2013 CEO, UEGCL emphasized the importance of the grant to UEGCL as a company and the energy sector at large. \u201cUEGCL has been able to smoothly operate and maintain the 183MW Isimba Hydropower Plant since it\u2019s commissioning in March, 2019 and we are ready to operate the 600MW Karuma Hydropower Plant once it is commissioned in 2020.\u201d Said Dr. Eng. Mutikanga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The grant totaling 84 million Norwegian Kroner will span a period of 5 years starting from 2020 to 2024 and will consist of 2 main projects highlighting the overall objective of the programme;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Project 1; <\/strong>Operation and Maintenance technical support In UEGCL\u2019s quest to operationalize its Strategic Plan (2018 -2023) and achieve its Vision \u201cTo be one of the leading power producers in the Great Lakes Region\u201d, On Friday, 6th October, 2019, UEGCL received a 5-year grant support from the Norwegian Government through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The signing of the agreement took place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/uegcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/uegcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/uegcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/uegcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/uegcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/uegcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/uegcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/uegcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/uegcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/uegcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/uegcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Project 2: <\/strong>Capacity building and Resource\/Training Centre Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"