Project Pipeline

Build a 120MW upstream hydropower project on the Ivondro River in the eastern Atsinanana region

• A dam 25 metres high and 350 metres wide, creating a reservoir of 15 million cubic metres;
• An underground plant with six horizontal-axis Francis turbines, each with a unit capacity of 20MW;
• Intake, surge and pressure shafts, and headrace and tailrace tunnels, altogether approximately 6.8km long, with a gross head of about 130 metres;
• A 1.5MW micro-power plant to turbine the ecological flow;
• An outdoor substation and a high-voltage transmission line about 30km long connecting to the existing Toamasina substation;
• Repair the 26km main access road and construct a 150-metre bridge across the Ivondro River.