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Reply to "Amaila Falls Hydropower Project now highly unlikely"

This is really good news to me.  The site has potential for future expansion; meaning that if designed properly the same transmission lines should be able to deliver power from future expansion.

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2016-12-12 | Page 26 of 49
Possible Future Extension of Amaila Falls Hydropower Plant
As Guyana's power demand is growing over the years, the long term optimum installed capacity at Amaila Falls in a developed power market would probably be higher than the 165 MW initially planned. In the future, therefore, extension of the installed capacity in Amaila Falls may be considered and compared in a least cost expansion perspective together with other hydropower sites with acceptable environmental and social impacts.
We envisage a possible second stage extension as a separate plant located in parallel with the first one. A major advantage of such overall layout is that there is no need to decide now on what shall be the total future installed capacity. Secondly, upfront investment in the first stage on works that will be useful only in the future will be minimal. As preparatory works for a possible second stage, only works required for avoiding later interruption of ongoing plant operation should be considered.
If water flow measurements in Kuribrong River is resumed in the near future as part of the project preparations, and with a time perspective of at least 10 years between the commissioning dates of the two stages, several years of river flow records would be available for reliable optimisation of the final installed capacity.
Provided the same reservoir limits are maintained after a future extension of the capacity, the marginal environmental impacts would be insignificant.

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