A joint venture of Portugal's COBA Consultores de Engenharia e Ambiete and the Portuguese subsidiary of France's Artelia Eau & Environnement has been awarded a contract by the Organisation for the Development of the Gambia River (OMVG) to carry out feasibility and detailed engineering studies for the construction and operation of a run-of-river hydropower plant with an estimated capacity of 20 MW on the Corubal River in the area of Saltinho in central Guinea-Bissau.
The Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Programme (NELSAP), the implementing agency acting on behalf of the Rusumo Power Company Limited (RPCL), for the development of the 80 MW Regional Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project (RRFHP) on the river Kagera at the common border of Rwanda and Tanzania, invites expressions of interest by 20 June from qualified consultants to act as owner's engineer to oversee the completion of the project. The project, which is being developed and will be operated by RPCL, a special purpose vehicle, set up by the Governments of Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania, is now under construction and is expected to be completed by July 2021.
Hydro Exploitation SA invites bids by 28 June for the supply of a Pelton turbine with a high-velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) coating for the 340 MW Électra-Massa hydropower plant in Bitsch in the canton of Valais in southern Switzerland.
