Entebbe to get sh6b solar plant
Jul 26, 2005
SOLAR Energy for Africa, a US non-governmental organisation, is to establish a $3.4m (about sh6b) solar assembling plant in Entebbe municipality.
By Ebenezer Bifubyeka
SOLAR Energy for Africa, a US non-governmental organisation, is to establish a $3.4m (about sh6b) solar assembling plant in Entebbe municipality.
John Ssemanda, the president of Solar Energy Uganda, said on Saturday that the ground-breaking would be in two weeks.
Claude Associate Constructors will handle the project, which will assemble solar panels, controller gadgets, invertors, lanterns and water heaters.
Ssemanda, a Ugandan living in the US, was speaking at the installation of two solar power systems worth $1,200 (about sh2.12m) at Kashare Health Centre III in Mbarara.
He said they have done 100 solar light installations in schools and health centres in Tanzania worth over sh309.7m.
Another solar project of 100 solar light installations will be launched in Rwanda today.
“The beneficiaries of solar light pay 50% of the costs in 12 months,†Ssemanda said.
The 53-man team headed by the retired Bishop of Pittsburgh Diocese in Pennsylvania, Alden Hathaway, is targeting 100,000 homes in rural Uganda within five years under the theme “Let there be light.â€
SOLAR Energy for Africa, a US non-governmental organisation, is to establish a $3.4m (about sh6b) solar assembling plant in Entebbe municipality.
John Ssemanda, the president of Solar Energy Uganda, said on Saturday that the ground-breaking would be in two weeks.
Claude Associate Constructors will handle the project, which will assemble solar panels, controller gadgets, invertors, lanterns and water heaters.
Ssemanda, a Ugandan living in the US, was speaking at the installation of two solar power systems worth $1,200 (about sh2.12m) at Kashare Health Centre III in Mbarara.
He said they have done 100 solar light installations in schools and health centres in Tanzania worth over sh309.7m.
Another solar project of 100 solar light installations will be launched in Rwanda today.
“The beneficiaries of solar light pay 50% of the costs in 12 months,†Ssemanda said.
The 53-man team headed by the retired Bishop of Pittsburgh Diocese in Pennsylvania, Alden Hathaway, is targeting 100,000 homes in rural Uganda within five years under the theme “Let there be light.â€