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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd (UEGCL) temporarily shut down the Nalubaale hydro-power station in Jinja as its engineers and UPDF marine soldiers cleared a floating island, mostly made of water hyacinth.<\/b><\/p>\n

The floating island, according to UEGCL\u2019s head of communication and corporate affairs Mr Enock Kusasira, was eventually redirected eastwards where it was fragmented and flashed through the spillway gates of the Kira hydro-power station.<\/p>\n

\u201cFloating islands consist of floating vegetation and soil; when these reach at the intake of the powerhouse, the soil carried by these islands, choke the water cooling systems of the generators and result in reduced water flow to generate electricity, and generators shutting down,\u201d Mr Kusasira said in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n

About affected dam<\/b><\/p>\n

Nalubaale Dam, formerly known as Owen Falls Dam, is one of legacy projects of the British colonial administration. Commissioned 69 years ago, the dam was designed to have 10 turbines, but when electricity generation started in 1954 only four turbines were operational.<\/p>\n

While the hydro-power station is operational, its main infrastructure is said to be fragile. The 150-megawatt dam remained Uganda\u2019s only hydro-power station until 1993 when construction of the 200-megawatt Kiira hydro-power station commenced. It was completed in 2003.<\/p>\n

Mr Kusasira, however, said last evening that Nalubaale had been switched on \u201cand the two dams are fully operational.\u201d<\/p>\n

Umeme takes action<\/b><\/p>\n

The electricity distributor, Umeme, immediately warned that the emergency shutdown would affect power supply in the Kampala Metropolitan and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur supplier, the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL), has informed us of a floating island at the Nalubaale and Kira dams, which has necessitated a shutdown of the two plants,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

The Umeme Manager for Public Relations and Media Relations, Mr Stephen Illungole, quoting their technical team, said, Nalubaale and Kira dams have been shut down to facilitate flushing the floating island.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe remaining hydropower plants have been maximised, thermal maximised and we are not able to service all the demand. Necessitating that we carry out emergency load shedding until the floating island has been flushed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mr Philip Davis Malaba, an electro-mechanical consultant, said if the mass of the floating island is extensive, it becomes a risk and obstruction to the normal operation of the turbines and could damage them.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, the hydropower generators shutdown the turbines that are in the risk path to clear or remove the vegetation from the water and when all is clear they restart the turbines… power interruption is inevitable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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