Members,
A few years back I did mention the fact that the present government has
Karamoja, Lamwo and the likes as its priority for electrical power development
and somewhere somehow the then educational responses from one or so WNF member
was in terms of the high cost of the towers and power lines needed to connect
West Nile. True, now it has dawned that the transmission lines are expensive
and therefore not affordable by the same government when the "cake" needs to
travel to West Nile!
I doubt if the dignitaries mentioned can ever make a move in that direction;
not even Caleb Akwandanaho! Can we try Moses Ali this time round. I know he is
a politician of his own calibre who can say, "this national grid must extend to
West Nile".
Just for information, the Minister of Energy was on air saying that the Nwoya
line will stop at Olwiyo!
My brother Caleb Alaka and your team of learned friends from West Nile, among
whom Rt. Hon. Moses Ali is, get down to unearth the concession deal between the
Government of Uganda and West Nile Rural Electrification Company. If Radio
Pacis can feed its solar power to the WENRECo grid and WENRECo in reverse feeds
the mini-grid of Radio Pacis in times of low solar energy output what is so
difficult and strange for a similar arrangement to hold between Uganda
Electricity Transmission Company and WENRECo or UMEME and WENRECo?
The worst case scenario in the absence of the above would be to celebrate West
Nile-Uganda centenary in 2014 as a road map towards independence.
Aggrey
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From: George Afi Obitre-Gama <[email protected]>
To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 9:18
Subject: [WestNileNet] Karuma Electricity Evacuation Plan - West Nile Left
Out
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Museveni-commissions-Karuma/-/688334/1945700/-/2yba3gz/-/index.html
Hello Members, see news link above.
I had thought that our MPs had spearheaded the lobbying of connection of West
Nile region to the national grid to solve our energy problems!! From the link
above, I was wrong!!
The elecrical energy from Karuma HPP shall be evacuated to Kawanda
Substation(260km from Karuma), Kamdini(13km from Karuma)and Lira( 85km from
Karuma). The Pakwach line through Nwoya/Amuru is not mentioned anywhere(about
110 km from Karuma).
I suggested before that our MPs in West Nile ought to have lobbied for the
connection to the National Grid which shall solve the outage problems in West
Nile. The Nyagak 1&2(isolated grid) can then be used as back-up power after
through syncronization with the National Grid.
Hon Jachan Omach, Hon Aridru, Hon Atiku, Hon Onzima, Hon Bako etc, kindly do
the neeedful for our region.
Hon Aridru, you need to take this up as a priority even if it means getting
additional funding!!
Members, what do you think?
George
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