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Background of the Bui Hydroelectric Project

 

 

The Bui Gorge - June 2007

 

Commencement of initial Phase Works -Dec. 2007

 

 

The Bui Hydroelectric Project was conceived long ago after Mr Albert Kitson had visited the gorge in the 1920s and declared the site suitable for a Hydro plant. Successive governments from Dr. Nkrumah’s time till the turn of the 21st Century had made unsuccessful attempts to construct the dam. In July 2007 however, the Government of Ghana secured funding from the Chinese Government to undertake the project.

When completed, the Bui Project will have a maximum generation capacity of 400 MW and a net average annual energy production of 1000 gigawatt hour/year (GWh/yr). The Ghana Government considers that the implementation of the Bui project is critical to meeting Ghana's future energy needs.

The Bui Project is located on the Black Volta River on the border of the Bole (Northern Region) and Tain (Brong-Ahafo Region) districts in North-Western Ghana, approximately 200 kilometers from Buipe, where the Lake Volta created by the Akosombo Dam ends. All components of the project lie entirely within the boundaries of Ghana. The specific location of the Bui Project is particularly suitable for a hydroelectric project because of the relatively deep gorge where the Black Volta River flows through the Banda Hills.

The project includes a main dam in the Bui Gorge and two smaller saddle dams in the neighboring Banda Hills, which will create a reservoir occupying 440km2 at full supply. A powerhouse and a switchyard will be built nearby the main dam, and new transmission lines will run east from the project site to the existing north-south transmission line corridor near Teselima and then south to substations at Techiman and Kenyasi. In addition, there will also be a construction of an irrigation system as well as a construction of a nucleus of a metropolis called the Bui City.