Guinea-Conakry Ratifies $45 Million Deal for Kéno Hydropower Project

General Mamadi Doumbouya, Transitional President, Guinea-Conakry has officially promulgated a law authorizing the development of the Kéno micro-hydropower plant, a project aimed at strengthening electricity access in the country’s southeast.

The project is based on a $45.49 million agreement signed in 2021, between the Guinean government and the Kama-Andritz Hydro consortium. It involves the construction of a 7.2 MW run-of-river hydropower plant in the Kéno area of N’Zérékoré region. The facility will include a concrete dam, a power station, a transformer substation and a new 30 kV transmission line connecting the towns of Guéckédou, Macenta and Kissidougou.

Structured under a 25-year Build-Operate-Transfer agreement, the project will be fully transferred to the Guinean state at the end of the concession period. The national utility, Électricité de Guinée will purchase the electricity at a rate of $0.096 per kilowatt-hour.

Construction is scheduled to last 48 months and will be managed by the Kama-Andritz consortium, while the government will oversee permitting, land access and legal guarantees.