Bujagali Energy Ltd.

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Bujagali Energy Limited (BEL or the company) is to develop, construct and maintain an up to 250 MW run-of-the-river power plant on a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer basis on the River Nile, at Dumbbell Island, 8 kilometers north of the existing Nalubaale and Kiira power plants, in Uganda. The company will also design and manage the construction of a 100 kilometer 132 kV transmission line (insulated for 220kV to allow for future expansions) (the Interconnection Project) on behalf of the Uganda Electricity Transmission company Ltd. (UETCL), Uganda’s national transmission company, to strengthen the evacuation of electricity from the project. The project will be an Independent Power project (IPP) and will sell electricity to UETCL under a 30-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), which was signed on December 13, 2005. BEL’s headquarters are in Kampala, Uganda.The project sponsors are Industrial Promotion Services (Kenya) Ltd. (IPS(K)) and SG Bujagali Holdings, Ltd., an affiliate of Sithe Global Power LLC (US) (Sithe Global). The project will be built under an Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) contract issued by BEL; the O&M operator of the plant is expected to be an affiliate company of Sithe Global. UETCL will award the Interconnection Project EPC contract, and own, operate, and maintain the transmission facilities. UETCL will contract BEL to play a management role in the design, procurement, and construction phases of the Interconnection Project.The hydropower facility will consist of a power station housing up to 5 X 50 MW turbine generators within a 28 m high earth-filled dam and spillway works. The project will require 125 ha of permanent land take and 113 ha of temporary land take for the project’s ancillary facilities. The dam will impound a reservoir extending back to the tailrace area of the Nalubaale and Kiira facilities, inundating Bujagali Falls. The reservoir will be 388 ha (3.88 km2) in surface area, comprising the existing 308 ha of the Victoria Nile, and 80 ha of newly inundated land. The reservoir waters will be contained within the steeply incised banks of the Victoria Nile between Dumbbell Island and Nalubaale, thereby minimizing the amount of newly inundated land. The associated Interconnection project being developed for UETCL involves the proposed construction and operation of the high voltage electrical transmission infrastructure needed in part to interconnect the proposed Bujagali Hydropower project to the national electrical grid and to strengthen the evacuation of electricity from the project. The proposed IP includes a 70 km transmission line to convey power generated to a new substation to be located in Kawanda, on the outskirts of Kampala; a 17 km transmission line to connect the Kawanda substation to the existing Mutundwe substation located in the southwest section of Kampala, where some minor upgrades will be needed to accept the new line; and, two 5 km transmission lines to establish interconnections between Bujagali and the Tororo substation in eastern Uganda and the Nalubaale substation in Jinja.