ABSTRACT
In July 2006, Uganda’s Minister of Energy, Daudi Migereko, openly acknowledged that his country was experiencing a power supply crisis. At the same time he also suggested that the crisis would end soon (Nampala 2006). Later that year, President Museveni echoed Migereko’s optimism while speaking at an international trade fair in Uganda: ‘This is the last energy crisis we shall have in Uganda, even for the future. This issue of electricity in the next three years shall be history. We have learnt enough lessons’ (Kasyate & Kamau Lugogo 2006). Museveni’s optimism rested on the belief that two hydro-electric dams, Bujagali and Karuma (Figure 14.1), both to be privately built, would be completed by 2010, thus reducing the country’s electricity supply shortfall in the medium term. Existing and proposed large hydro-electric facilities in Uganda https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781849771061/59a7e0a3-b925-4651-a724-8382469e44c3/content/fig14_1_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Source: World Bank 2
