Small Hydropower

Power Plant

Guma

River: Guma
Year of commisioning: 1967. It was decommissioned in 1982
Dam height (m): 69
Volume (Hm3): 220
Lake area (Km2): 0.80

Comments: the plant was not operational in 2016 (direct information from MoE in Sierra Leone)

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Firestone (Harbel)

River: Farmington
Year of commisioning: 1942
Dam height (m): not available
Volume (Hm3): not available
Lake area (Km2): not available

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Ekiti

Status: Under construction

Comment: geographical location unclear

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Charlotte

River: not available
Year of commisioning: 2016
Dam height (m): not available
Volume (Hm3): not available
Lake area (Km2): not available

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Challawa Gorge

River: Challawa
Year of commisioning: 1992
Dam height (m): 40
Volume (Hm3): 930
Lake area (Km2): 96

Metadata: HERE

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Port Loko (Bhanka Soka Project)

River: Bankasoka
Year of commisioning: December 2017
Dam height (m): not available
Volume (Hm3): not available
Lake area (Km2): not available

UNIDO funded the feasibility study.

The Government of China funded the project.

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Bakolori

River: Sokoto
Year of commisioning: 1978
Dam height (m): 48
Volume (Hm3): 450
Lake area (Km2): 57

Comments: the plant was not working in June 2016 (information from a field mission in the country)

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Ankwil 2 (Bagel 2)

River: Tenti

River (alternative name): Bagel

Year of commisioning: 1963

Dam height (m): 9

Volume (Hm3): 1.16

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Ankwil 1 (Bagel 1)

River: Tenti

River (alternative name): Bagel

Year of commisioning: 1964

Dam height (m): 27

Volume (Hm3): 31

Lake area (Km2): 4.10

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Document

World Small Hydropower Development Report 2013_Western Africa

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Le Programme Petite Hydroélectricité de la CEDEAO

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The ECOWAS Small-Scale Hydropower Program

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Baseline Report on existing and potential small-scale hydropower systems in the region

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Rural Electrification through Small Hydro Power in China

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News

SEFA grants US $1 million to develop a transformative hydropower project in Guinea-Bissau

The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) approved on September 16 on the sidelines of the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Energy Week a US $965,000 grant to support the preparation of turnkey run-of-river hydropower plant with an estimated electric capacity of 20 MW at Saltinho, Guinea-Bissau. The hydropower plant will be interconnected by a transmission line to Bissau and neighbouring countries within the framework of the regional energy programme by the “Organisation for the Development of the Gambia River” (called OMVG in French), co-financed by AfDB. This SEFA support falls under a wider partnership with United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Global Environment Facility (GEF) and ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), for renewable energy investments promotion in Guinea-Bissau, including the development of the hydropower project at Saltinho.

 

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GIS Mapping of Hydropower Resources in West Africa

The ECOWAS Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency kicked-off on the 16th of March, 2015 together with Pöyry Energy GmbH, the project which seeks to map the hydropower resources for all the river basins in the ECOWAS region.

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Small Hydropower World Portal

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the International Center on Small Hydro Power (ICSHP) have developed an interactive web platform which seeks to identify the world's small hydropower development status and its potential in different countries and regions by engaging with stakeholders to share information. Most of the available data on the website is extracted from the World Small Hydropower Development Report 2013 (WSHPDR 2013). The project represents a world-first compilation of global small hydropower data, and aims to be a crucial policy and investment guide for renewable energy provision through small hydropower.

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Call for Proposals: Web-based GIS Hydropower Resource Mapping for ECOWAS Countries

ECREEE is planning to implement a web-based GIS hydropower resource mapping, to facilitate the identification of attractive sites for hydropower generation in the ECOWAS Region. It is part of the ECOWAS Small Scale Hydro Power Program (SSHP) which aims to contribute towards establishing an enabling environment for small-scale hydro power investments and markets in the ECOWAS region.

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Stakeholder

VALDAS & COMPANY LTD

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Agence Malienne pour le Développement de l’Energie Domestique et l’Electrification Rurale - AMADER

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