In 1992, MISA partnered with Virginia-based AES Electric Ltd. to develop Africa"s first private hydropower project on the River Nile.  At a cost of over US$250,000,000, the facility would produce 220 mega watts of renewable, carbon-free electricity for Uganda and neighbouring Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda.  During the course of the project, MISA played a major role in restructuring Uganda"s national power sector to accommodate private electricity production, transmission and distribution.  The project was also adopted as a text-book case study for Environmental Impact Assessments by the World Bank.  The project, however, suffered a major drawback in 2001 with the collapse of Enron, the attacks on September 11th and a general policy reversal by the Government of Uganda.  As yet, the project remains undeveloped.

Today, the Madhvani family remains committed to the production of renewable energy.  A 22 mega watt sugar cane co-generation programme is nearly complete in Kakira.  MISA is also looking at developing power from peat, rape-seed oil and recovering waste-heat from its own production facilities in Europe.