The Gribo-Popoli Hydropower Plant, the largest hydropower station under construction in Cote d'Ivoire, being built by POWERCHINA, marked a major milestone on March 9, when the overflow spillway was completed 100 days ahead of schedule.
That was followed on March 14 by another milestone, the flow closure of the cofferdam, also 100 days ahead of schedule.
These developments have laid a solid foundation for realizing power generation by the first unit of the station.
The station is located on the Sassandra River in the Soubre province of Cote d'Ivoire. It will have a total installed capacity of 112.9 MW and a total storage capacity of 82 million cubic meters of water. The main construction of the project includes earth-rock dams, spillways and power plants.
Plans are for the first unit to start operating at the end of 2023. It is expected that this will alleviate the power shortages in Cote d'Ivoire and further promote economic integration and economic prosperity in West Africa.
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The Gribo-Popoli Hydropower Plant in Côte d'Ivoire, being constructed by POWERCHINA, achieved a significant milestone on March 2. It began impounding water 60 days ahead of schedule.
More than 400 people participated in the ceremony, including the Ivorian mainstream media.
At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, representatives from various project and local government departments delivered speeches. The presentative of the project owner praised this new milestone and the efficient progress of the project. He also stated that the successful impoundment of water marks a crucial step towards power generation.
The Gribo-Popoli Hydropower Plant is located downstream of the Soubre Hydropower Plant, which was also completed by POWERCHINA. Financing support for Gribo-Popoli Hydropower Plant is provided by the Export-Import Bank of China.
Once completed, the Gribo-Popoli Hydropower Plant will have a total installed capacity of 112.9 megawatts and a reservoir capacity of 82 million cubic meters. After put into operation, it will generate 554 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually for Côte d'Ivoire, playing a crucial role in the country's expanding power supply. It is also set to reduce generation costs, promote economic and social development, contribute to dual carbon reduction goals, and increase power exports.
In November 2017, while announcing the commissioning of the Soubre Hydropower Plant, Alassane Dramane Ouattara, president of Côte d'Ivoire, personally laid the foundation stone for the Gribo-Popoli Hydropower Plant, and expressed his earnest anticipation for the continued contribution of POWERCHINA to the electricity industry in Côte d'Ivoire.
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Singrobo-Ahouaty, West Africa's first privately-funded hydropower plant project, is 78.93% complete as of end-March 2023, the African Development Bank has announced. After three years of construction, the project has achieved significant progress, symbolizing private sector mobilization for climate and green growth in the region.
The project is funded by €90.7 million in loans and €43.6 million in equity, with the African Development Bank Group contributing €40 million in loan co-financing. Other financiers include Africa Finance Corporation, Neo Themis, IHE Holdings, DEG, and the Emerging Africa Infrastructures Fund.
The last structures of the plant, including cofferdams and sluice gates, have been installed, and the installation of power turbines and alternators is set to begin shortly. The construction of the spillway and tailrace is in progress, with approximately one million cubic meters dug into the rock and 85,000 cubic meters of concrete poured. The project is expected to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2024.
Upon completion, the hydropower plant will provide electricity to 100,000 households and reduce Côte d'Ivoire's CO2 emissions by 109,000 tons annually. The project is expected to create 500 jobs during the construction phase, including 150 skilled jobs, and 28 jobs during the operational phase.
In addition to providing clean energy, the project includes the construction of a 4km access road, rehabilitation of health centers, and the supply of drinking water to two nearby villages. The facility will diversify Côte d'Ivoire's energy mix, with the government aiming to generate 42% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
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6 February 2020, Abidjan, Côte d''Ivoire - Senior African government representatives and leaders from the energy sector, financial institutions and civil society gathered in Abidjan today to chart a course for the sustainable development of the continent''s hydropower resources.
Read the meeting's outcomes in English and French.
Organised by the International Hydropower Association (IHA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Africa High-level Roundtable on Sustainable Hydropower Development looked at strategies for ensuring projects are developed in accordance with international good practice, while overcoming challenges to development and access to finance.
With close to 600 million Africans lacking access to electricity, speakers including Hon Fortune Chasi, Zimbabwe''s Minister of Energy, and Sabati Cissé, Côte d''Ivoire''s Director-General for Petroleum, Energy and Renewable Energies, emphasised the social-economic and power system benefits of investing in hydroelectricity.
Africa''s existing hydropower plants deliver 36 gigawatts (GW) of installed generation capacity, but this represents only about 11 per cent of the region''s technical potential, according to IHA (Hydropower Status Report 2019).
"As a renewable energy source offering design options from run-of-river plants to pumped storage plants, hydropower in its different forms adds significant value to power systems and the reliability of energy supply," said Wale Shonibare, the African Development Bank''s Acting Vice President for Power Energy, Climate Change and Green Growth.
"As the Bank''s emphasis on renewable energy sources is growing, so does its interest in hydropower. In order to achieve universal access to energy, it is not enough to bring online the amount of generation capacity required to cover energy demand, it is also essential to do this in a sustainable way that assures power system reliability," he said.
(Pictured: Sabati Cisse, Director General of Energy, Ivory Coast and Hon. Fortune Chasi, Minister of Energy, Zimbabwe)
In his intervention, Minister Chasi noted that Zimbabwe, where more than half of the population does not have electricity access, needs international investment and technical assistance to develop renewable energy sources including hydropower. "We consider hydropower to be essential and critical for our generation of power," he said.
Mr Cissé noted that Africa''s hydropower plants, through increasing electricity access, contribute significantly to poverty reduction and economic growth. "Africa has enormous hydropower potential, which we will need if we want to achieve national policy priorities and the Sustainable Development Goals."
Eddie Rich, Chief Executive of IHA, said it was important to create an enabling policy and regulatory environment to incentivise new projects, while ensuring that both greenfield and rehabilitation projects are built and operated in accordance with internationally recognised guidelines and assessment tools.
"The Hydropower Sustainability Tools, governed by a multi-stakeholder coalition of social and environmental NGOs, governments, banks and industry, must be embedded in decision-making on project selection, planning, financing, development and operation. These tools define good and best practice and help to assess whether a hydropower project is truly sustainable across objective social, environmental and governance performance measures," he said.
The Africa High-level Roundtable on Sustainable Hydropower Development was organised with support from AFD, the French development agency.
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