The popular perception of renewable energy in Uganda tends to focus on hydropower and occasionally solar power.
Renewables have a relatively short history in Uganda, especially in the public view. However, renewable energy from hydropower has been at the core of Uganda’s grid electricity production since the 1950s.
Hydropower electricity, which is over 1300mw, accounts for more than 80 percent of the country’s stable power sources whose role continues to be constrained by the poor state of the national grid and unstable power supplies.
Power transmission and distribution across the country is very limited. Grid electricity is available to only 24 percent of the population. This has provided a strong incentive for Ugandans to find something more stable that does not result in the constant drain of cash associated with the high electricity…