CGGC and South Sudan sign a contract for the Biden Hydropower Station Project

Updated: 2012-02-02

On Jan 20, CGGC and the Ministry of Electricity and Dams of South Sudan signed a contract in Beijing for the Biden Hydropower Station Project.

Representatives from the Ministry of Electricity and Dams of South Sudan, South Sudan Power Corporation and CGGC participated in the signing ceremony.

The Biden Hydropower Station is located on River Bahr al-Jabal, a section of the Nile River between Nimule and Juba, Equatorial State, South Sudan, 30 kilometers away from Juba, the country’s capital.

With a total installed capacity of 540 MW, the project, in the form of an EPC turn-key contract, includes construction of power houses, diversion dam blocks, concrete spillway dams, dam blocks with concrete bottom and outlets, non-spillway dam blocks and concrete faced rock-fill dams. With a construction period of 80 months, the project is expected to fundamentally remove the power supply bottleneck in South Sudan after completion.