Saltinho project study

The Organisation for the Development of the Gambia River Basin (OMVG) is set to issue a tender for feasibility, environmental impact and engineering studies for the construction and operation of a run-of-river hydropower plant with an estimated capacity of 20MW on the Corubal River in the Saltinho area in central Guinea-Bissau. The studies for the Saltinho project, which is to be sited some 100km south-east of the capital, Bissau, have the technical and financial support of the African Development Bank through the Sustainable Energy Fund (SEFA), the United Nations Fund for Industrial Development, the Economic Community of West African States and the Austrian Development Bank.