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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Government is sourcing for material to connect at least 234,989 electricity applicants through the free electricity connection policy.<\/p>\n

In a press statement released at the weekend Energy and Mineral Development minister Ruth Nankabirwa, said the exercise which is currently ongoing, will be conclude before the end of the month.<\/p>\n

\u201cProcurement of 234,989 no-pole connection material is ongoing and these materials are expected in [this month] August,\u201d she said, adding: \u201cThis is, therefore, to confirm government\u2019s commitment to increase access to clean energy in line with the National Development Plan III.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the statement did not indicate how much government would spend on the material, going by the cost recovery price for each no-pole connection, the 234,989 connections should translate to at least Shs169.3b .<\/p>\n

Once assembled, the cables and metres will be used to clear the backlog of about 160,000 pending applications that resulted from government\u2019s suspension of the free electricity connection policy in October last year due to financial challenges.<\/p>\n

However, the programme resumed in March after the African Development agreed to advance government money for the project.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the matter, Mr Selestino Babungi, the Umeme managing director, said they will attend to the applications on first in, first out basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe target is to have cleared at least 87,500 by October,\u201d he said, noting that Umeme was building capacity to connect at least 1,000 households per day.<\/p>\n

A number of applicants, he said, had also opted to push for self-funded connections, which he attributed to a three-day turnaround connection time.<\/p>\n

At least, he said, 40,000 households had applied for self-funded connections in the last few months.<\/p>\n

In her statement, Ms Nankabirwa said that whereas government had provided resources for the free connection policy, households with the ability to pay for their connections were free to push through their applications.<\/p>\n

Highlights<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2022 November 2018 \u2013 government launches free electricity connections.<\/p>\n

\u2022 300,000 \u2013 projected number of premises to connect annually.<\/p>\n

\u2022 October 2020 \u2013 government suspends free connections.<\/p>\n

\u2022 March 2021 \u2013 relaunched<\/p>\n

\u2022 299,843 \u2013 ECP connections made to date<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shs200b \u2013 money needed annually to implement free electricity connections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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