Kaliro Power Station is a bagasse-fired thermal power plant in

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, the third-largest economy in the

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Location

The power station is located on the campus of Sugar & Allied Industries Limited, the owners of the power station. This location lies in the village of ''Buwaya'', about northwest of the town of Kaliro, in

Kaliro District Kaliro District is a district in the Eastern Region of Uganda. It was created out of the eastern part of Kamuli District in 2006. Kaliro is the site of the district headquarters. Location Kaliro District borders Serere District to the nort ...

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. This about north of

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, the nearest large town. Kaliro Power Station lies about northeast of

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, the capital and largest city in the country. The coordinates of the power station are 0°56'50.0"N, 33°29'13.0"E (Latitude:0.947217; Longitude:33.486939).

Overview

Kaliro Power Station is owned and operated by Sugar & Allied Industries Limited (SAIL), the third-largest sugar manufacturer in Uganda. The power station was designed and built around the sugar manufacturing plant of SAIL. The fibrous residue from the process of crushing sugar cane, known as

bagasse Bagasse ( ) is the dry pulpy fibrous material that remains after crushing sugarcane or sorghum stalks to extract their juice. It is used as a biofuel for the production of heat, energy, and electricity, and in the manufacture of pulp and building ...

, is burnt to heat water in boilers and produce steam. The steam is pressurized and used to drive turbines which then generate

electricity Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwel ...

. The excess heat is used in the sugar manufacturing process. , the power station was capable of producing a maximum of 12MW of electricity, 5MW of which was utilized internally by SAIL. The remaining 7MW is sold to the national electricity grid. The plant is expandable to a maximum capacity of 22MW. Both SAIL and Kaliro Power Station are subsidiaries and member companies of the Alam Group, a multimillion-dollar conglomerate based in

with subsidiaries in

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and

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Licensure

In October 2014, the

Electricity Regulatory Authority The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) is a government agency that regulates, licenses, and supervises the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, export, and importation of electrical energy in Uganda. Location The offices of the ER ...

issued a power production license to Kaliro Power Station for 11.9MW.

References

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All Uganda's Three Major Sugar Factories Co-generate Electricity From BagasseAnalysis of Uganda's Present And Future Electricity Needs And Sources
{{Kaliro District Industrial buildings completed in 2014 Bagasse-fired power stations in Uganda Kaliro District Alam Group

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Overview

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