Uganda’s Karuma to See Delay
In Uganda, the Karuma hydropower plant could see a delay. According to media reports the project may not be delivered by the scheduled completion date of December 2018.
According to Edward Mutesa, Senior Project Manager at Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Ltd. (UETCL) in a report in The Monitor, a delay of six months has already been reported, due to many difficulties in compensating the people affected by the construction of the lines, Karuma-Kawanda, Karuma-Olwiyo and Karuma-Lira.
To date Uganda has compensated only 2,791 of the 4,135 people who will be displaced by the project.
With a capacity of 600 MW, the Karuma hydroelectric plant has an overall cost of $1.7 billion and is expected to be the largest infrastructure of its kind in the country. Its construction began in 2013 and is currently 70% complete.