energy saving bulbs
The Minister of State for Energy, Simon D’ujang has said Uganda’s energy distribution company ‘UMEME’ begins distributing free bulbs across the country today.
The exercise runs from today Monday July 19th under the theme ‘Energy for Social and Economic Development’ and it will end on July 24th, 2010.
D’ujang says the government plans to use this period to distribute over 250,000 energy saving bulbs to power consumers across the country.
The Ministry of Energy in Uganda in early 2006 received a 13 billion shillings loan from the World Bank to procure over 800,000 energy-saving bulbs for free distribution to the public but the distribution stopped in the middle due to reported corruption and abuse of the exercise.
The minister urges Uganda’s power consumers to embrace energy saving mechanisms to ensure that they do not spend a lot of resources on settling power bills.