According to the official website of CEC, the No. 1 unit (the last one) of Upper Atbara Hydropower Station in Sudan was successfully connected to the grid at 9:30 a.m. on June 11, local time, and thus all the four vertical double-regulated axial-flow slurry units of the station with a single unit capacity of 80 megawatts (MW) have been put into operation to generate power, which has greatly alleviated the shortage of electricity in Sudan, and benefited nearly one million people.
Sudan Upper Atbara Dam Hydraulic Hub is the second largest hydropower hub project under construction in Sudan, which is of great significance to alleviate the domestic power shortage and solve the problem of agricultural irrigation water. With a design capacity of 3.6 billion cubic meters and an installed capacity of 320 megawatts, it has already formed a reservoir of about 3 billion cubic meters. After the completion of the project, it can irrigate an area of 500,000 hectares, and will solve the problem of irrigation water for 7 million people, provide drinking water security for 3 million people, and provide power supply for millions of people, and one-third of the population of Sudan will be directly benefited from it, which is a major livelihood project at the national level, and has been highly valued by the Sudanese state and local government. At the celebration ceremony of the first unit power generation, Sudanese President Omar Hassan Hassan, the President of the Republic of the Sudan, said that the project is a major national livelihood project. Hassan. Mr. Omar Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, gave the order to start the power generation. Mr. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, personally gave the order to start the power generation and expressed his gratitude to the Chinese enterprises for their significant contribution to the development of power industry in Sudan!
The concrete production system of Sudan Upper Atbara Dam Water Conservancy Hub Project is designed and supplied by our company, including 2 sets of HL240-2S3000L mixing buildings, 1 set of HZ120-2S1500 mixing plant, 4 sets of 1000T silos, 4 sets of 500T silos, and ancillary equipments such as powder conveying system and admixture system etc. At the same time, our company has supplied two sets of MQ900 and MQ1260 overhead gantry. MQ1260 elevated gantry, user concrete pouring construction.