Uganda is currently running on reserved Power Supply as turbines at the 3 main power supply plants were blocked by a floating island along River Nile on Monday night.
The Minister of Energy, Mary Kitutu has attributed the problem to uncontrolled environmental degradation as a result of residents constructing illegal farms along the shoreline, forcing it to burst its’ banks and reclaim all its’ lost spaces that are forced to float on the lake.
The power plants of Nalubaale, Kiira, and Bujjagali are responsible for supplying power nationwide.
The Chief Executive Officer of Electricity regulatory authority-ERA, Ziria Tibalwa, has said that power generation agencies are exhausting the reserved power sources to ensure that, there is a constant power supply in the whole country.
Tibalwa says that the country is currently relying on 183 megawatts from Isimba dam, 30 megawatts from three solar plants, 52 megawatts from the Namanve based thermal power plant and 120 megawatts from two mini-hydro plants in the different parts of the country.
Thozama Gangi, the Managing Director of Eskom Uganda limited says that they have lobbied for excavators from the Ministry of Works to ensure that the clogged plants are removed to ensure operations of the affected power plants.
The blockage sent the country in a total blackout on Tuesday shortly before the President addressed the nation for close to one hour.
