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IPS, Uganda Sign Deal for West Nile Power Project
The IPS Group last week signed agreements with the Uganda government and other implementation agencies for the $11.3 million Western Nile Rural Electrification Project.
The technical partner in the project is Rural Maintenance (pty) Ltd (RML) of South Africa. The project is a public/private partnership between the government of Uganda and the Western Nile Rural Electrification Company (WENRECo), the special purpose company formed by IPS and RML to implement
the project.
Uganda's Minister for Energy and Mineral Development Syda Bbumba and representatives of other implementing agencies and IPS group managing director Lutaf Kassam signed three agreements: an Implementation Agreement, a Rural Electrification Subsidy Agreement and an Asset Transfer Agreement.
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Subject: Nyagak
Companies bid for West Nile Power Project
The electrification of the districts of Arua and Nebbi in West Nile shall start June this year, the Chief Executive Officer of Electricity Regulatory Authority, Eng. Dr Frank Sebbowa has revealed. The people of West Nile shall soon cease to have power for only a few hours, because plans are under way to have a private company distribute power to them full time, come June this year,? Sebbowa told The Monitor Feb. 16.
So far we have five companies interested, including Roko, Kibo from Namibia, ABB, and the Uganda Rural Electrification Company under the Agha Khan, among others,? he said. ?They will have to supply power for more than 18 hours a day for the first three months.?
A tender is to be awarded between June 14-15 this year.The successful bidder will have to invest not less than US $20m in the project, and will have to develop Nyagak Power Scheme within the first year
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West Nile agrees on power dam site
By Ahmed Angulibo
THE people of West Nile region have finally accepted government's decision on the location of an electric power dam.
There are proposals to build a 3.3 Mega Watts dam at Nyagak in Nebbi or
a 1.4 Mega Watt dam at Olewa in Arua. The agreement was reached in a consultative meeting with the Electricity Regulatory Authority to get the opinion of stakeholders in the region in any electricity project, held at the Arua Catholic Centre on Friday.
The meeting was chaired by the transport state minister, Andruale Awuzu, who represented energy minister Syda Bbumba.
A World Bank consultants team leader, Mark Davis, a senior Economist from Centre for Economic Analysis in Norway, said they would begin their work with Nyagak and then Olewa. Nyagaki is the cheapest to be developed in West Nile. It will take
about two years Davis said. He said the World Bank and the Government of Uganda were about to sign the agreement.
Newvision 21 November, 2001
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NYAGAK DAM VERSION EIGHT
Business
Monday, June 25, 2001
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
A NEW hydropower station capable of generating up to 5 megawatts will
be constructed in the West Nile region of Uganda after studies established its feasibility.
The region has never had an electricity generation plant and relies on diesel generators that are switched on from 7pm to 10pm.
The West Nile Electrification Scheme falls under a recently adopted Energy for Rural Transformation (ERT) programme. Financed by a 10-year loan, the project is supported by three separate creditslinked to the World Bank. Based on the independent grid system, the hydropower plant is to be built on river Nyagak.
The scheme obliges the developer to build, own and operate a complete power system in West Nile, which comprises Nebbi, Arua, Moyo and Adjumani administrative districts.
In 1998, Harza Engineering Company International conducted a feasibility study for the Nyagak/Paidha power project expected to cost $17.21 million.
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West Nile region is set to get two hydroelectric power stations at Nyagak and Olewa, together with a $3.5m support facility from the World Bank.
The $3.5m is part of the Prototype Carbon Fund Facility (PCF), but the two power stations costing about $12m, are being developed by private interests.
"It is great when one is looking for funding for a project as important as this to the development of a community when you get this kind of help. In addition to getting power the consumers will also be contributing to a safer environment," the Permanent Secretary,in the Energy and Mineral Development ministry, Kabagambe Kaliisa said Monday.
A two-day workshop on hydro-power in the region ended yesterday. PCF is involved in supporting cleaner sources of energy that help reduce pollutants in the atmosphere. Kaliisa headed the Ministry's team, while Arun Sanghvi represented PCF. The region has been using several old diesel generators.
"It will make it that much easier for other financiers to provide the rest of the funding when they know that we have promised to put up the US$3.5m to pay for the carbon dioxide and other pollutants which will be reduced" Sanghavi said.
New vision Wednesday June 6, 2001.
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Arua To Get Electricity
ARUA is to get a generator which will supply the region with electricity until the completion of Nyagak hydro-electric power station.
Alex Jurua, the LC5 chairman, said this on Sunday during a live talk-show on Voice of Life FM, a local Christian radio in Arua.
Jurua said the power plant is to be completed within three years.
"Arua in about two weeks will get a high lead generator to serve the whole of Arua, Nebbi and Paidah as a temporary measure. by the time Nyagak power station is completed in three years time, there will already be many clients to consume the power," he said.
New Vision Wed, 21 Mar 2001 03:04:33 -0500
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A feasibility study on the project has been completed - and MORE
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New Vision (Kampala)
July 8, 2000
Kampala - The Italian government has withdrawn its interest in the funding of a West Nile rural electrification scheme, the Commissioner for Energy Mr.Rweihunga Turyahikayo has clarified.
According to the Public Investment Plan, which was issued August last year, by the Ministry of Finance had approached the Italians to fund the Paidha Hydro Power.
A total of US$ 20.5m had been pledged, with a balance of$415.5m expected to come from a mixed credit from the Italian government. But Rweihunga said the terms of funding the project was not agreeable to government and this caused the Italians to withdraw.
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Nyagak power dam starts next year
Construction of Nyagak hydro power plant in Paidha, Nebbi district, will start next year, according to the Permanent Secretary ministry of Energy and Minerals, Kabagambe Kaliisa.
Kaliisa told The Monitor last week that contracts had already been tendered locally and internationally and the deadline for submission will be end of July 2000. The contract is to be awarded before the end of this year, Kaliisa said.
"We think all processes will be completed before the end of this year so that construction starts next year," he said. The project is estimated to cost between US $15m and US $20m, and on completion, to generate 3.3 Megawatts, and possibly expand to 6MW.
"We are going to develop an isolated grid for West Nile electrification in the short to medium term which is not connected with the national grid," the PS explained.
"This is an integrated investment to be supported by both the public and private partnership. The private sector will develop the generation plant, while the public sector through donor and government funding will put up the transmission and distribution infrastructure," he said.
"The Italian government is going to be one of the donors."
While the private sector is expected to manage the generation, it will also lease transmission and distribution infrastructure on a long-term concession, he added.
The project will contribute to the economic and social development of West Nile, currently almost entirely powered by isolated diesel stations in Moyo, Arua and Nebbi.
monitor 4 July 2000
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Italy pulls out of Nyagak power
Italy has withdrawn interest in funding Nyagak hydropower project in Nebbi district, according to a report of the ministry of Finance released last week. Italy was supposed to provide US $36.47m.
According to the public investment plan released last week, Uganda is now negotiating for alternative funding from the Spanish government.
Nyagak hydropower Project targets the West Nile region. The hydro power plant will be located at Paidha on river Nyagak in Nebbi district, with a 33KV-distribution network to supply the region.
Total project cost is estimated at US $36.47m (Shs 57bn). Government contribution through debt with Uganda Electricity Board is US$ 5m (Shs 7.8bn). The balance is mixed credit from the Spanish government.
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Italy to give $25m
By Ahmed Angulibo
MR. V. Racalbulo, the Director Italian Cooperation Technical Unit, has said the Italian Government will beginning next year, commit US$25m as soft loan to Uganda for rural electrification.
Racalbulo said last week Arua, Nebbi, Moyo and Adjumani would be the immediate beneficiaries.
He was speaking at Arua school of nursing and midwifery during a visit to inspect Italian projects with the ambassador, Mr. Luigi Napolitano.
Ends. Vision 1 July 2000.
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US$13 million for Nebbi power project
Government has earmarked US$5 million for the construction of a hydroelectric power project on River Nyagak in Nebbi district.
It is meanwhile engaged in talks with the Italian government for additional funding of $8.3 million to be provided to enable the project take-off.
Minister for energy and mineral resources Syda Bumba told parliament's committee on natural resources that the funds would also be used to establish transmission and distribution lines in the districts of Arua, Adjumani, Nebbi and Moyo.
She said she expected the project to kick off in January 2000. The government wants Italy to provide 80% of the funds as a grant and the rest as a loan. A feasibility study on the project has been completed. Tender documents are also ready but the lack of counterpart funding is holding up the process.
Vision dec. 1999
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