[4] This is approximately 230 kilometres (143 mi) by road, east of Kampala, the country's capital and largest city.

Tororo Solar is majority owned by Building Energy SpA, an International developer of renewable power sources, with headquarters in Milan, Italy.

The Simba Group also owns Electromaxx Limited, the owner-operator of the 70 megawatt Tororo Thermal Power Station, commissioned in 2010.

[11] Fifty percent of the FMO loan was syndicated from the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), which is substantially funded by the governments of the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland and by the German development finance institution, KFW and its Dutch equivalent, FMO.

[12][13] The project is a beneficiary of the GETFit Uganda program led by KfW,[14] receiving grant support from (amongst other contributors) the EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund (EU-AITF).