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The Mwadingusha Hydroelectric Power Station, also Mwadingusha Power Station is a 78.3 megawatts hydroelectric power station across the Lufira River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Originally commercially commissioned in 1930, the six electricity generators were replaced and upgraded from 11
.8 MW each, to 13.05 MW each, raising generation capacity from 71 MW to 78.3 MW. The rehabilitation and upgrade of the power station between 2016 and 2021, was executed by a joint partnership between Ivanhoe Mines, a Canadian mining company and Société Nationale d'Électricité (SNEL), the DR Congolese national electricity utility parastatal company. Part of the electricity generated here is used by Ivanhoe Mines in its Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine, an estimated 250 kilometres (155 mi), southwest of the Mwadingusha HPP. The balance of the power is taken up by SNEL and integrated into the national electricity grid.
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