Uganda's Soroti Solar Power Plant Comes Online
Uganda, together with renewable energy developers, celebrates the inauguration of the country's first grid-connected solar power plant in Soroti.
On Monday, Uganda’s minister of state for energy, D’Ujanga Simon, officially unveiled the newly built 10MW Soroti solar power plant, suitable to power 40,000 homes, schools and businesses in the area.
According to a press release issued by Access Power, the plant, which is made up of 32,680 photovoltaic panels, is the country’s first grid-connected solar plant and is also one of East Africa’s largest plants that will generate clean, low-carbon and sustainable electricity.
The project was developed under the Global Energy Transfer Feed in Tariff (GET FiT), a dedicated support scheme for renewable energy projects managed by Germany’s KfW Development Bank in partnership with Uganda’s Electricity Regulatory Agency (ERA) and funded by the governments of Norway, Germany, United Kingdom and the European Union.
Andreina Schoeberlein