Covid delays expansion of ElectroMaxx project
December 30, 2020 Written by DAVID MUWANGA
About 40 Chinese technicians contracted to install machinery for the expansion of ElectroMaxx Limited are yet to return to Uganda.
“We are waiting for a team of forty Chinese technicians to return to Uganda, they had gone to celebrate their new year and when Covid-19 broke out, they have not yet returned,” company chairman Patrick Bitature said in a recent interview.
The company, an Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Africa, produces more than 20 megawatts including low-cost heavy fuel oil (HFO), which will reduce the cost of power in Uganda. The company plans to reduce the cost of power from 35 cents to eight cents