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The Government of Uganda through the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) has established 22 Industrial Parks in selected areas in the country with the objective of promoting industrialization. To achieve this objective, UIA has acquired land in various places and is at various stages of planning and development. Among these is the provision of infrastructure which includes roads, water, power and waste disposal facilities. Several investors have been allocated land on concessional terms, to establish their businesses in the new created industrial parks and have established industrial facilities ready to commence production. Establishing businesses in the industrial parks will require adequate, reliable and efficient power supply to meet the vital Small, Medium and Large Scale industrial loads. To achieve this objective, the Government of Uganda (GoU) through its implementing agency, the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) has handed over project sites for the industrial parks power substations and related transmission lines to a Chinese firm CAMC Engineering company ltd construct four industrial park substations at Luzira, Namanve south, Mukono and in Iganga. UETCL has also engaged the services of an independent supervising consultant NEK Consults to supervise the project that is expected to be commissioned in 2018. According to the UIA, some of the investors that have acquired land at the various industrial parks are at advanced stages of planning and have established industrial facilities ready to commence production. These include the following; Iganga Industrial park Mukono Industrial park Namanve south Industrial park Luzira industrial park Tembo Steels Tian Tang Steel Works Roofings Surgipharm Ministry of Tourism Steel Corporation of East Africa Tembo Steels at Lugazi Uganda Research Institute Quality Chemicals Active Pharmaceuticals MMI Steel Kampala Cement Industries Mukwano Transpaper Sava Engineering Works Bidco Abisha Steel Steel and Tube Industries Graphic Systems Woodworks Bavima National Water - Katosi Three Way Shipping Kenlloyd Logistics Basese Investments Ltd Tasco Industries Marianna Agencies Uganda Cleaner Production Centre Aponye (U) Ltd Mayuge Modern Steel Vinci Coffee Company Pipeline Design & Foam Engen Uganda Ltd Nile Agro The Industrial parks power substations and transmission lines project will entail extension of the national electricity grid backbone by construction approximately 38km of the 132kV transmission lines. This will include construction of a 5km 132kV metallic transmission line from the 132kV Nalubaale-Namanve transmission line to the proposed Namanve south industrial park substation, a 15 km of 132kV transmission line from the proposed Namanve south industrial park substation to the proposed Luzira industrial park substation, an 8km of 132kV transmission line from the Existing 132kV Nalubaale-Namanve transmission line to the proposed Mukono industrial park substation and a 10km 132kV transmission line from the existing Bujagali-Tororo 132kV to the proposed Iganga industrial park substation. Construction of Shs300bn Industrial parks power substations commence Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) UETCL Project Manager Mr. Mark Namungo (left) hands over site documents for the Luzira Industrial Park substation to Mr Yang Guo Liang, the CAMCE project manager. UETCL and NEK consult surveyors review coordinates for the proposed Namanve south Industrial park substation. Namanve Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) 132/33kV that currently serves the Namanve Industrial park and its business environs. UETCL will construct similar sub-stations for the Namanve South, Luzira, Mukono and Iganga Industrial Park sub-stations UETCL engineers and NEK consults supervision staff take a group photo after hand over of substation sites and transmission line corridor to CAMCE at the Mukono Industrial Park substation. UETCL Project Manager Mr. Mark Namungo(Right) and Mr. Yang Guo Liang, the CAMCE project manager, at the Namanve GIS Substation UETCL, NEK consult staff and CAMCE staff open boundaries for the proposed Iganga Industrial Park substation. P.O. Box 7625, Kampala, Uganda | Plot 10 Hannington Road | Phone: +256 414 233433/4 | Fax: +256 414 341789 | Email: [email protected] Eng. Eriasi Kiyemba - MD/CEO UETCL Managing Director/CEO Eng. Eriasi Kiyemba says that the industrial parks power project will provide load centres for power that will be generated at the Karuma 600MW and Isimba 183MW Hydro Power Plants. “In other words the sustainability of investments on Karuma and Isimba Hydro Power Plants depends a lot on the industrial park sub stations project being implemented” he said. Kiyemba says that with the rapid growth in energy demand since 2005 when the country faced an electricity crisis, Government has therefore undertaken to construct the Karuma and Isimba Hydropower Projects to mitigate future energy supply shortages. He says that the Industrial parks power substations and related 38km of transmission lines are therefore justified on the reason that the existing 33kV distribution infrastructure is not able to meet the required future power demand for the growing industrial parks. Once completed, the project benefits will include reduction of network losses due to the more efficient transmission of power on the 132kV voltage level compared to the current distribution of energy on 33kV level. There will be minimal diesel generation in Industrial Parks because of the reliable and efficient power supply by UETCL. Other benefits will include an increase in income-generating activities, increase in grid coverage and the electrification rate. The total project cost for construction of the four Industrial parks substations and related transmission lines is US$ 99,975,885.34. The project cost financing terms according the loan agreement between the Government of Uganda and the China Exim Bank is that 15% of the project costs totaling US $ 14,996,383.80 million will come from the Government of Uganda and a loan of 85% of the project cost totaling US$ 84,979,502.548 will come from the China Exim Bank and shall be re-payment in a period of Fifteen Years with a three year grace period. The other attendant costs for the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) will come from the Uganda Energy Fund. In March 2013, H.E the President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and His Excellency Xi Jinping, President of the Peoples’ Republic of China, at the BRICS Summit meeting held in South Africa agreed on terms and conditions of the financing for the 600 MW Karuma Hydropower and Associated Transmission Lines Project, 183 MW Isimba Hydro power and Associated Transmission Lines Project and the Namanve, Luzira Mukono, Iganga Industrial substations Project. UETCL Senior Public Relations Officer Mr. Kenneth Otim says that a participatory approach in the preparation of the project has been taken into consideration with interests of communities in the project areas, government agencies, and civil society, national and international NGO’s during design, planning and development. He says that UETCL will continue to interact with its stakeholders to incorporate their concerns during the construction process and operation of the project.
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The Government of Uganda through the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) has established 22 Industrial Parks in selected areas in the country with the objective of promoting industrialization. To achieve this objective, UIA has acquired land in various places and is at various stages of planning and development. Among these is the provision of infrastructure which includes roads, water, power and waste disposal facilities.
Several investors have been allocated land on concessional terms, to establish their businesses in the new created industrial parks and have established industrial facilities ready to commence production.
Establishing businesses in the industrial parks will require adequate, reliable and effi cient power supply to meet the vital Small, Medium and Large Scale industrial loads. To achieve this objective, the Government of Uganda (GoU) through its implementing agency, the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) has handed over project sites for the industrial parks power substations and related transmission lines to a Chinese fi rm CAMC Engineering company ltd construct four industrial park substations at Luzira, Namanve south, Mukono and in Iganga. UETCL has also engaged the services of an independent supervising consultant NEK Consults to supervise the project that is expected to be commissioned in 2018.
According to the UIA, some of the investors that have acquired land at the various industrial parks are at advanced stages of planning and have established industrial facilities ready to commence production. These include the following;
Iganga Industrial park
Mukono Industrial park
Namanve south Industrial park
Luzira industrial park
Tembo Steels Tian Tang Steel Works Roofi ngs Surgipharm
Ministry of Tourism
Steel Corporation of East Africa
Tembo Steels at Lugazi
Uganda Research Institute
Quality Chemicals
Active Pharmaceuticals
MMI Steel Kampala Cement Industries
Mukwano Transpaper
Sava Engineering Works
Bidco Abisha Steel Steel and Tube Industries
Graphic Systems
Woodworks
Bavima National Water - Katosi
Three Way Shipping Kenlloyd Logistics
Basese Investments Ltd
Tasco Industries Marianna Agencies Uganda Cleaner Production Centre
Aponye (U) Ltd
Mayuge Modern Steel Vinci Coffee Company
Pipeline Design & Foam
Engen Uganda Ltd
Nile Agro
The Industrial parks power substations and transmission lines project will entail extension of the national electricity grid backbone by construction approximately 38km of the 132kV transmission lines. This will include construction of a 5km 132kV metallic transmission line from the 132kV Nalubaale-Namanve transmission line to the proposed Namanve south industrial park substation, a 15 km of 132kV transmission line from the proposed Namanve south industrial park substation to the proposed Luzira industrial park substation, an 8km of 132kV transmission line from the Existing 132kV Nalubaale-Namanve transmission line to the proposed Mukono industrial park substation and a 10km 132kV transmission line from the existing Bujagali-Tororo 132kV to the proposed Iganga industrial park substation.
Construction of Shs300bn Industrial parks power substations commence
Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL)
UETCL Project Manager Mr. Mark Namungo (left) hands over site documents for the Luzira Industrial Park substation to Mr Yang Guo Liang, the CAMCE project manager.
UETCL and NEK consult surveyors review coordinates for the proposed Namanve south Industrial park substation.
Namanve Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) 132/33kV that currently serves the Namanve Industrial park and its business environs. UETCL will construct similar sub-stations for the Namanve South, Luzira, Mukono and Iganga Industrial Park sub-stations
UETCL engineers and NEK consults supervision staff take a group photo after hand over of substation sites and transmission line corridor to CAMCE at the Mukono Industrial Park substation.
UETCL Project Manager Mr. Mark Namungo(Right) and Mr. Yang Guo Liang, the CAMCE project manager, at the Namanve GIS Substation
UETCL, NEK consult staff and CAMCE staff open boundaries for the proposed Iganga Industrial Park substation.
P.O. Box 7625, Kampala, Uganda | Plot 10 Hannington Road | Phone: +256 414 233433/4 | Fax: +256 414 341789 | Email: [email protected]
Eng. Eriasi Kiyemba - MD/CEO
UETCL Managing Director/CEO Eng. Eriasi Kiyemba says that the industrial parks power project will provide load centres for power that will be generated at the Karuma 600MW and Isimba 183MW Hydro Power Plants. “In other words the sustainability of investments on Karuma and Isimba Hydro Power Plants depends a lot on the industrial park sub stations project being implemented” he said.
Kiyemba says that with the rapid growth in energy demand since 2005 when the country faced an electricity crisis, Government has therefore undertaken to construct the Karuma and Isimba Hydropower Projects to mitigate future energy supply shortages.
He says that the Industrial parks power substations and related 38km of transmission lines are therefore justifi ed on the reason that the existing 33kV distribution infrastructure is not able to meet the required future power demand for the growing industrial parks.
Once completed, the project benefi ts will include reduction of network losses due to the more effi cient transmission of power on the 132kV voltage level compared to the current distribution of energy on 33kV level. There will be minimal diesel generation in Industrial Parks because of the reliable and effi cient power supply by UETCL. Other benefi ts will include an increase in income-generating activities, increase in grid coverage and the electrifi cation rate.
The total project cost for construction of the four Industrial parks substations and related transmission lines is US$ 99,975,885.34. The project cost fi nancing terms according the loan agreement between the Government of Uganda and the China Exim Bank is that 15% of the project costs totaling US $ 14,996,383.80 million will come from the Government of Uganda and a loan of 85% of the project cost totaling US$ 84,979,502.548 will come from the China Exim Bank and shall be re-payment in a period of Fifteen Years with a three year grace period. The other attendant costs for the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) will come from the Uganda Energy Fund.
In March 2013, H.E the President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and His Excellency Xi Jinping, President of the Peoples’ Republic of China, at the BRICS Summit meeting held in South Africa agreed on terms and conditions of the fi nancing for the 600 MW Karuma Hydropower and Associated Transmission Lines Project, 183 MW Isimba Hydro power and Associated Transmission Lines Project and the Namanve, Luzira Mukono, Iganga Industrial substations Project.
UETCL Senior Public Relations Offi cer Mr. Kenneth Otim says that a participatory approach in the preparation of the project has been taken into consideration with interests of communities in the project areas, government agencies, and civil society, national and international NGO’s during design, planning and development.
He says that UETCL will continue to interact with its stakeholders to incorporate their concerns during the construction process and operation of the project .
