Rosatom JV signs contract for hydro facility in South Africa

Hungarian-Russian joint-venture company Ganz Engineering and Energetics Machinery, which forms part of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, recently signed a contract with South African partner Blue World Power Energy and Resources to supply hydro-electric equipment for the installation of a small-scale hydro-electric power plant at Mpompomo Falls, near Barberton in Mpumalanga. Acting project integrator Rusatom International Network (RIN) president Alexander Merten notes that this was the first of many envisaged mini-hydro projects in the sub-Sharan African region. “This is our first contract with Blue World Power and Energy Services, with a scope to install a low-yield hydro-electric power plant in South Africa,” he said in a statement. Rosatom offers numerous energy solutions for African countries, one of the most promising being an innovative containerised mini-hydropower plant with a design capacity of up to 2 MW.