Guinea-Bissau government approves Saltinho dam project
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on O Democrata
Guinea-Bissau Natural Resources Minister Júlio Mamadu Baldé announced that the head of government had approved the Saltinho dam project. The minister also highlighted the start of electricity supplies from the Kaléta and Sambangalou dams, as part of energy cooperation between the four member states of the Gambia River Basin Development Organisation, according to O Democrata.
The government of Guinea-Bissau has approved the project to build the Saltinho hydroelectric dam, Natural Resources Minister Júlio Mamadu Baldé said on Thursday. The construction project is set to extend the energy infrastructure of the Gambia River Basin Development Organisation, according to O Democrata.
Júlio Mamadu Baldé said electricity generated by the Kaléta and Sambangalou dams was now in service. He added that Saltinho should become a reality “in a few years”, without giving a more precise timetable. The minister was speaking in Bissau at the third ordinary session of the board of directors of SOGESART, the company responsible for managing energy from Sambangalou and the transmission network.
The meeting, held from 22 to 24 October, brings together board members from the four OMVG member countries: Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia and Guinea. Júlio Mamadu Baldé said a summit of the organisation’s heads of state could be held in Bissau before the end of the year, according to the planned schedule.
Carlos Andrade, chairman of the SOGESART board, said the company operates and maintains the OMVG’s electricity interconnections and monitors implementation of the Sambangalou hydroelectric project. He attributed Guinea-Bissau’s current access to electricity to this regional interconnection, O Democrata reports.
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