Uganda on Thursday commissioned its largest electricity generation plant, a 600 megawatt (MW) power plant built on the River Nile that cost $1.7 billion, financed with a loan from China.

The Karuma Hydropower Project (KHP), constructed by Sinohydro Corporation, sharply raises Uganda’s generation capacity to slightly above 2000 MW.

Construction of the plant, which began in 2013, was delayed for several years and missed multiple completion targets.