Transportation
Uganda commissions $1.7 bln China-financed hydropower plant
Uganda on Thursday commissioned its largest electricity generation plant, a 600 megawatt (MW) power plant built on the River Nile that cost $1.7. billion, funded with a loan from China. The Karuma Hydropower Project (KHP), built by. Sinohydro Corporation, greatly raises Uganda's generation. capacity to somewhat above 2000 MW. Building and construction of the plant, which began in 2013, was postponed. for a number of years and missed multiple completion targets. At the commissioning ceremony in Kiryandogo in northern. Uganda, Chinese Ambassador Zhang Lizhong explained the plant as. a flagship task of China-Uganda cooperation. He said the plant would link...