By Vision Reporter

The Bujagali Hydropower project, a 250-megawatt power plant on River Nile near Jinja town, is to be commissioned Monday afternoon on the eve of 50th Independence anniversary.

President Yoweri Museveni is to launch the project.

The multi-million dollar Bujagali hydropower project adds another 250MW onto the national grid for consumption.

Consumers will not experience load-shedding at any time as power deficit has been wiped out, at least for 24 months.

The $860m Bujagali hydropower project was commissioned, unit by unit, in response to energy ministry’s strategic decision to replace the expensive thermal power generation at the earliest date and minimise load-shedding.

The move was aimed at saving the money that was used to pay the expensive thermal power operations. The level of subsidy (payment for thermal power) had reached unsustainable levels and the cumulative amount of subsidy paid out was sh1.5 trillion.