An international consortium has chosen MWH to provide engineering services for the Bujagali hydropower plant, which will double the generating capacity of Uganda.
The $682 million project is one of the largest private power sector investment ever made in Sub-Saharan Africa and is expected to boost economic development in Uganda, which has one of the world’s lowest electrification rates.
Under the terms of the contract, USA-based MWH will provide technical assistance to the owner, design review, construction drawing review, and assistance during start-up and commissioning during the 44-month engineering and construction phases. It expects to receive approximately $3.8 million over four years for its services on the project.
Bujagali broke ground in August 2007 and is scheduled to be complete by 2011. It is being developed by a consortium of Industrial Promotion Services of Kenya and Sithe Global Power under a build-own-operate-transfer agreement with the government of Uganda.
The project is on the Victoria Nile River, about eight km downstream of the existing Owen Falls hydropower project, which regulates the flows into the Victoria Nile from Lake Victoria. It will develop a gross head of around 22 m and will comprise a 30 m-tall rockfill/earthfill embankment-type dam, a concrete gravity dam, and a concrete powerhouse equipped with five Kaplan-type turbines and generators.
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