Project Outline
The hydroelectric facility consists of the following elements:
- Two Roller Compacted Concrete dams (total length of 2,000m; height above foundations around 15m) on the Sanaga River to create a 27.8 million m3 reservoir with a surface of 4.21 km2 at Normal Operating Level.
- A headrace concrete lined canal (about 3.3 km long and 14m deep in average) to conduct water to the hydroelectric power plant with a maximum flow rate of 980 m3/s corresponding to the design flow of the hydroelectric power plant equipment
- An hydroelectric power plant including seven 60 MW Francis turbines able to operate either as run of river plant or an intermediate peaking plant
- A secondary power plant to generate electricity from the environmental flow rate (riparian release) to be discharged downstream of the dam
- A double busbar 225 kV generation substation and a double circuit 50.3 km transmission line (225kV) equipped with two bundle conductors to transport the power produced from the power plant generation substation to the Nyom 2 connection substation.
Construction of the facility shall start by the end of 2017. The commissioning of the first turbine is expected between 2021 and 2022.
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On 8 November 2013, the Nachtigal amont Consortium comprising (...) |
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The Project is located on the Sanaga River about 65 km north-east of Yaoundé, in the central region (...) |