- Source: Mugere Hydroelectric Power Station
MugereHydroelectric Power Station (French: Centrale Hydroélectrique de Mugere) is an 8 megawatts (11,000 hp) run-of-the-river hydroelectric power station in the Bujumbura Rural Province of Burundi.
Location
The 8 MW Mugere Hydroelectric Power Station is in the Commune of Kabezi, Bujumbura Rural Province.
It is along the Mugere River.
The plant is south of Bujumbura.
It contains four 2-MW units.
It delivers 40 GWh per year.
The original purpose of the plant was to provide power to a Chinese textile mill and to Bujumbara.
Construction and rehabilitation
The Mugere plant was the first hydroelectric plant in Burundi.
The government of China financed its original construction in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
It was commissioned in 1982.
A 35 kV line was built in 1982 linking the Mugere hydroelectric plant to Bujumbura.
Successive rehabilitation projects were undertaken with Chinese financing in 1987, 1993, 2000 and 2009–2010.
The 2009–2010 project was undertaken by Hebei Hydraulic Engineering Bureau, China First Highway Engineering Company and China Road and Bridge Corporation, and was handed over on November 15, 2010.
As of 2010 the power station provided almost 30% of the electricity supplied to the city of Bujumbura, and 40% of the hydroelectric capacity of the state-owned water and power utility Regideso, Burundi.
The output of the Mugere hydroelectric generating station drops considerably in the dry season since it has no reservoir to store water, but relies on the river flow.
See also
List of power stations in Burundi
References
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