Central hydroélectrique de Manantali
Central hydroélectrique de Manantali | |||
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Coordinates | 13 ° 11 '52 " N , 10 ° 25' 47" W | ||
country | Mali | ||
Waters | Bafing | ||
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Type | Hydroelectric power plant | ||
Primary energy | water | ||
power | 200 MW | ||
owner | Eskom | ||
operator | Societe de Gestion de l'Energie de Manantali | ||
Project start | 1996 | ||
Start of operations | 2003 | ||
turbine | 5 Kaplan turbines |
Centrale hydroélectrique de Manantali is a hydroelectric power station in the immediate vicinity of the city of Manantali in the Republic of Mali ( West Africa ).
history
The power plant and transformer station with a total output of 200 MW, divided into five units with 40 MW each, was subsequently built between 1996 and 2002 on the irrigation dam of the Manantali Dam, which had been built since 1988 . The Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), Banque Européenne d'Investissement (BEI), Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (BOAD) and various investors from Europe, Canada and the USA involved. The construction costs were named BCEAO with 500 million CFA francs . The project management ( engineering, procurement and construction management ) was carried out by the companies Tractebel , Tecsult and Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG from Stuttgart .
The five Kaplan- type turbines and the generators were supplied by the Swiss industrial group Sulzer AG .
The operator is the “Societe de Gestion de l'Énergie de Manantali” (SOGEM for short) which also maintains 10 substations with a control center and a transmission line network of around 2000 km in length. In 2001 supply contracts were agreed between the participating countries, Mali keeps 52% of the energy produced in its own country, 33% goes to Senegal and 15% to Mauritania .
The official inauguration of the power plant took place on May 21, 2003 by Amadou Toumani Touré , President of the Republic of Mali.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hydroelectric Power Plants in West Africa ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on industcards.com, accessed August 3, 2013.
Web links
- Homepage Societe de Gestion de l'Énergie de Manantali , accessed on August 3, 2013.