 In 1938, The East African Power & Lighting Company was granted a license for thermal electric power generation and distribution for the towns of Kampala and Entebbe, and in the same year Governor Sir Philip Mitchel switched on Kampala and Uganda's first electric street lights.In 1945, Ernst May a German architect, was commissioned by the Uganda Protectorate Government to design a new physical plan for Kampala.Ernst May's plan of 1947 was intended to extend Kampala eastwards covering Kololo Hill and Naguru Hill, and with commercial center on the southern slopes of Nakasero Hill, an industrial zone in the southeast of Kampala and for the first time a planned residential zone for the Ugandan natives.