Busitema Solar Power Station
power plant in Uganda
The Busitema Solar Power Station is a 4 megawatts (5,400 hp) solar power plant in Uganda.
Location
The power station is located in Busia District in the Eastern Region of Uganda, on the main campus of Busitema University, a public university, approximately 183 kilometres (114 mi), by road, east of Kampala, the largest city and capital of Uganda.
Overview
This solar station is a donation from the government of Egypt to the government of Uganda. This followed the signing of bilateral agreements between the two countries in 2016. This was then followed by the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the president of Egypt, and Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda, in May 2018. The power station is intended to increase Uganda's renewable energy pool, increase the supply of power to the Eastern Region, and serve as a teaching tool to university students studying renewable energy programs.
This power station was the fifth solar power station connected to the Ugandan national electricity power grid, after the Soroti Solar Power Station, which came online in December 2015, the Tororo Solar Power Station, which was commissioned in October 2017, and the Kabulasoke Solar Power Station, which was commissioned in December 2018. Mayuge Solar Power Station with capacity of 10 megawatts came online in June 2019.
Developers
The solar power plant was developed by engineers from the Egyptian Ministry of Electric & Renewable Energy Authority. The senior engineer is Mohammed A. Abdel Aziz and the project manager is engineer Reda Shaban Ali.
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