Uganda's regulator opens the 2027 electricity tariff review.

For a large power user in Uganda, the electricity tariff it pays in 2027 is now formally in play: the Electricity Regulatory Authority has given notice that it has received annual tariff review applications from the state generation, transmission and distribution companies.

The notice carries the heading "Annual Tariff Review for 2027" and is dated 10 November 2026. It tells stakeholders who wish to make representations on the applications that they may send them to the Authority by post, by hand, or by another recorded delivery method, and it gives no date by which representations must arrive.

What the notice does not do is say what any of the three companies has asked for. No figure and no schedule of charges appears in it, and it points instead to links where each application can be viewed.

Read together, the three applications put the whole regulated chain into one annual cycle: what generation costs, what moving the power costs, and what the distribution business adds before the meter. On this reading, the 2027 price path turns on how the Authority treats each licensee's claimed cost of supply across all three cases rather than on any one of them, and the tariff determination that follows will set the frame every tariff schedule beneath it has to fit.

For large power users, an open representation window is the one point in the year when a site's own load profile and cost exposure can be put on the regulator's record, rather than absorbed quietly in a bill twelve months later. It is worth asking whether your site, or the industry body that speaks for it, intends to make a representation, and what the applications seek for the charges that fall on large demand customers. It is also worth checking whether your supply agreement passes a regulated tariff change straight through, because that is the route by which a new determination would reach your bill.