Umeme buyout

The long-running standoff between Umeme and the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) over a UGX 594 billion debt has once again thrown Uganda’s power sector into turmoil, exposing deep financial fissures in the country’s electricity value chain. In an exclusive response to the CEO East Africa Magazine, UETCL maintains that the UGX 593.5 billion in question represents verified receivables accumulated from energy sales to Umeme under the Power Sales Agreement (PSA), which governed the purchase and distribution of electricity throughout the company’s 20-year concession. According to the transmission utility, the figure audited and confirmed by the Office of the…