On November 29, 2019, Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo will break the ground for the construction of the $750m Pwalugu multi-purpose dam in the Upper East region to begin.
Sources say the $750m project will provide 60 megawatts of hydro-electricity and 50 megawatts of solar power to stabilise power supply in northern Ghana, develop a 25,000 hectares irrigation scheme for Agriculture and control flood along the White Volta River in the region.
Construction of the dam, which has been on the drawing board since independence, has become imperative due to the annual floods and deaths that occur in the areas that are within the flow-way of the Bagre Dam from upstream Burkina Faso.
Once completed, the multi-purpose Pwalugu dam will have an elevation of 165 metres near the Pwalugu Bridge on the White Volta River. As ghanaweb.com reports, the project will also have a powerhouse consisting of two turbines with 60 Mw of installed capacity and 16.5 Mw of continuous capacity as well as a 15-km overhead line for export of power to an existing transmission line.
