It is true that dams generate power, but also come with disadvantages such as displacement of people and destruction of biodiversity. This has hit home after the construction of the 183MW Isimba dam.

The emerging catalogue of engineering and operational flaws have raised questions among sector players and other experts on whether inauguration of the critical infrastructure was rushed. The ...

Work on the Isimba Dam, which on average supplies approximately 105 MW per hour to the national grid, commenced in April 2015. The dam was commissioned in March 2019. The project was initially under ...

Parliament has recommended the establishment of an independent technical evaluation team for Isimba Hydro Power Project to ascertain its integrity. The House chaired by Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa ...

Government has announced that it has started importing a certain percentage of electricity for use in the country from neighbouring Kenya following an emergency shutdown at Isimba down. The Isimba ...

The Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa has directed the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development to provide a comprehensive statement on the shutdown of Isimba Hydropower Power Plant. While chairing the ...

The China Water and Electric Corporation (CWE), EPC Contractor for the Isimba Hyropower Project in Uganda, which the World Bank is not financing, ran a paid advertisement in The Daily Monitor, a ...