Kajbar Power Station

The Kajbar Power Station is a proposed hydroelectric power plant on the Nile in northern Sudan. Flooding the third cataract, it will have a power generating capacity of 360 MW, enough to power over 202,000 homes.[1] Among other goals, the dam aims at facilitating heavy industry implantation in the area by its power generation.[2]

Kajbar Dam
CountrySudan
LocationNorthern State
Coordinates19°56′24″N 30°25′51″E
PurposePower
StatusProposed
Construction cost$700 m
Dam and spillways
ImpoundsNile River
Height (thalweg)20 m
Reservoir
Surface area110 km²
Power Station
Turbines6 x 60 MW
Installed capacity360 MW

Kajbar power station is part of a larger hydropower generation programme all along the Nile in Sudan, that also includes the Merowe dam (completed in 2009), Shreiq dam and Dal dam (proposed).[3]

As of 2020, the project is stalled and the expected completion date is unknown.

Opposition

Kajbar hydropower project has encountered a massive opposition from local communities, most of them belonging to the threatened Nubian minority. The reservoir created by Kajbar dam would flood 110 km2 of the Nile valley, requiring the relocation of 10,000 people from 10 to 12 villages, along with the submersion of some 500 archaeological sites.[4][5] As a consequence, several protests against the project have occurred since the 2000s, some of them being violently repressed such as in 2007.[6]

Initially expected for completion by 2016,[3] the project has been stalled due to strong opposition, and no significant progress had been made as of 2020.[7]

References
  1. "1150 MW Merove Hydro Power Plant built in Sudan as per the design by Institute Hydroproject". www.powereng.ru. 2009-07-25. Archived from the original on July 10, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
  2. Heuwel, Sahra (2013-05-23). "Sudan's 360 MW Kajbar hydropower scheme to proceed". ESI-Africa.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  3. Power relations of development : The case of dam construction in the Nubian homeland, Sudan. 2018. p. 183.
  4. "New Chinese dam project fuels ethnic conflict in Sudan | Pambazuka News". www.pambazuka.org. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  5. Heuwel, Sahra (2013-05-23). "Sudan's 360 MW Kajbar hydropower scheme to proceed". ESI-Africa.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  6. "Protests against Kajbar Dam in Sudan met with violence | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre". www.business-humanrights.org. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  7. "International - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-12.


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