{"id":37763,"date":"2018-10-08T16:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=37763"},"modified":"2018-10-08T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:10:01","slug":"ugandans-likely-to-pay-more-for-power-as-more-dams-come-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/ugandans-likely-to-pay-more-for-power-as-more-dams-come-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandans to pay more for power as more dams come on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Sam Ssebuliba.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ugandans are likely to pay more for power in Uganda as more dams come on board.<\/p>\n<p>This comes at a time when government is planning to commission more two power dams that is Karuma and Isimba despite the available power surplus.<\/p>\n<p>While releasing the reality check report\u00a0dubbed powering Uganda&#8217;s transformation, the\u00a0executive director center for development alternative Max Walter said that the current power consumption cannot cover the production cost and that explains increasing power tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>He said that it would be prudent for government to start by building the power demand and increase power generation accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Uganda power installed capacity stands at 822 megawatts, and it\u2019s likely to rise to 3500\u00a0megawatts by end of this years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Ssebuliba. Ugandans are likely to pay more for power in Uganda as more dams come on board. This comes at a time when government is planning to commission more two power dams that is Karuma and Isimba despite the available power surplus. While releasing the reality check report\u00a0dubbed powering Uganda&#8217;s transformation, the\u00a0executive director center for development alternative Max Walter said that the current power consumption cannot cover the production cost and that explains increasing power tariffs. He said that it would be prudent for government to start by building the power demand and increase power generation accordingly. Currently Uganda power installed capacity stands at 822 megawatts, and it\u2019s likely to rise to 3500\u00a0megawatts by end of this years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":37764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37763"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}