Construction of the Rwandan Rucanzogera small hydropower project will begin. Earlier, the Rwanda Energy Group (REG) and Norwegian company Empower New Energy and their partners signed a power purchase agreement (PPA).

The hydropower project will be located in Rusiga. The project involves the construction of a runoff hydropower station. This is a facility that can operate without the need for a dam. The turbines rotate according to the flow of the river on which they are installed.

Rucanzogera Small Hydropower Project

When completed, the small hydropower plant will have a capacity of 1.9 MW and will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 7,000 tons per year. According to the Norwegian company, the project will provide households in the target area with access to cheaper energy through the grid each year, saving a total of $ 67,500 annually. About 10,000 people in rural Rwanda will benefit from the project.

The Rucanzogera project was developed by a consortium of Norwegian Empower New Energy, Rwanda General Engineering (Tiger) and Malthe Winje, Oppegård, Norway.

Under the signed agreement, the consortium is responsible for the import, export, supply, generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity in Rwanda. The total cost of the project is $ 7.9 million and will be funded by a consortium and a grant of $ 500,000 will be provided by the Energy and Environment Partnership Trust Fund (EEP Africa). This is a dedicated clean energy credit line managed by the Nordic Development Fund (NDF), funded by Austria, Finland and NDF.Editor / Huang Lijun