The Hydroelectric Power Station at Sanga, owned by the Democratic Republic of Congo’s state-run utility SNEL, has been connected to the national grid. The turbine generator number 6 [TG 6] of the power station has been rehabilitated and is producing electricity. It had not been connected since 1997.
Rehabilitation of the TG 6 is part of Phase 1 of the project for rehabilitating the Hydroelectric Power Station of Sanga, funded by the Forrest Group. Management of the project and work on the site have respectively been entrusted to the Congolese companies NSM Hydro and Ateliers D’Electromaintenance Industrielle.
Work is continuing on TG 1 and TG 4 which are scheduled to go into service in H1 2018. The three turbine-generator sets have an overall generation capacity of 6 MW.
Apart from the units, the project has rehabilitated the foot and head valves of the penstocks, the Medium and Low Voltage auxiliary electricity systems and the High Voltage substation. Work on the site began in early 2017.
The hydroelectric power station of Sanga is located 20 km upstream of the Zongo falls, in the District of Lukaya, in the Central Kongo Province. The infrastructure of the hydroelectric power station, built between 1930 and 1950, uses the water of the River Inkisi, a tributary of the River Congo.