Mali: Rehab work at Selingue, Sotuba hydro plants

France’s Ingerop is overseeing rehabilitation work at the Selingue and Sotuba hydropower stations, which should be fully operational by 2019. The 46.24MW Selingue hydropower station was built in 1981 at a site 130km south of Bamako on the Sarankani River, a tributary of the Niger River. Ingerop is supervising the reassembly of one of four Voith 11.56MW Kaplan turbines, which was previously rehabilitated by another engineering firm but Ingerop detected problems that needed further checks.