Umeme Limited, Uganda’s largest distributor of electricity has welcomed government’s move to allow customers who can afford to, to pay for their connections as the impasse around the Electricity Connections Policy (ECP) is resolved. Sitting on 26th October 2020, cabinet, according to a statement by the Uganda Media Centre, “agreed to temporary halt the implementation of the provision of connection subsidies to consumers in cognizance of the constraints to the budget.” Cabinet, further, according to the statement, “authorized the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development to issue a policy direction in the interim with effect from 1st March 2021 to…
Umeme welcomes gov’t move to allow privately funded power connections; says move will ease pressure on 240,000 queued applications

An Umeme technician at work. Umeme ays the adjustment in the ECP will allow the power distributor to ease the pain of its customers who have been in queue




