{"id":16824,"date":"2015-03-05T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T12:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=16824"},"modified":"2015-03-05T13:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T13:40:27","slug":"uganda-set-for-power-grid-inter-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/uganda-set-for-power-grid-inter-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda set for power grid inter-connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15924\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/power-lines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15924\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/power-lines.jpg\" alt=\"Power lines\" width=\"135\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Power lines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The ministry of energy has embarked on a comprehensive pro-active plan to interconnect Uganda\u2019s power grid with neighboring countries to ensure reliable supply.<br \/>\nAccording to the state minister for Energy Simon Dujanga, the move was prompted by the increasing power demand.<br \/>\nHe says Uganda is now in process of connecting with Kenya to help the country have access to electricity from Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt which are already interconnected.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that although Uganda has invested heavily in construction of new power plants, the demand is still high owing to the high rate of industrialization.<\/p>\n<p>Story by Samuel Ssebuliba<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ministry of energy has embarked on a comprehensive pro-active plan to interconnect Uganda\u2019s power grid with neighboring countries to ensure reliable supply. According to the state minister for Energy Simon Dujanga, the move was prompted by the increasing power demand. He says Uganda is now in process of connecting with Kenya to help the country have access to electricity from Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt which are already interconnected. He explained that although Uganda has invested heavily in construction of new power plants, the demand is still high owing to the high rate of industrialization. Story by Samuel Ssebuliba &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}