This location is approximately 16 kilometres (9.9 mi), by road, east of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.

[3] Namanve Power Station was owned and operated by Jacobsen Electricity Company (Uganda) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jacobsen Elektro, an independent Norwegian power production company.

On 14 September 2021, Jacobsen Electro transferred ownership to Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited, who now own, operate and maintain the power station.

[5] Full and complete handover of the power station to UEGCL was effected on 24 February 2022, after the government of Uganda had compensated Jacobsen for certain expenditures, including "the money spent on buying land, unused fuel and spare parts".

When there is no electricity emergency in the national grid, this power plant is operated at a baseline of 7 MW, to keep each of the seven generators running and ready.