Uganda to import Kenya electricity

The Uganda government and Kenya Electricity Generating Company have started negotiations to import 50 megawatts of power, a move intended to alleviate the electricity crisis in the country.

The Standard, a Kenyan daily reported yesterday that KenGen had registered a surplus in its production and had now agreed to sell some of the power to Uganda, which has a deficit of hundreds of megawatts.

“We are in talks with the Ugandans to supply 50MW of power out of the emergency power because they need the power more than we do,” the paper quoted KenGen managing director, Mr Eddy Njoroge, as telling a media briefing in Nairobi on Thursday.

“They wanted to have the power from June 1, but we are yet to conclude negotiations on pricing.”

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