South Sudan River Current Turbine

This project was started by Peter Fraenkel and the then newly formed company IT power Ltd. Peter who later co-found the company Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT) was bought by Siemens in 2012, and later sold to Atlantis Resources in 2015. Atlantis Resources was later rebranded as SIMEC Atlantis Energy (SAE). A cross-flow river current turbine was installed in the river Nile in Juba, South Sudan. This project is one of the first known current energy project. The irrigation system worked reliably for about two years starting in 1981, and proved capable of lifting approximately 50,000 litres per day through a head of about 5m in currents of 1 to 1.5m/s^3.

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Project Status Is the project actively being planned or is deployed in the water (active)? Or was the project canceled or completed (inactive)?

Inactive

Project Life Cycle Project Progress through life cycle:<ul> <li>Planned: Project has identified a deployment location and is preparing for deployment</li> <li>Operational: Project is deployed in the water and is active</li> <li>Completed: Project was previously deployed in the water</li> <li>Decommissioned: Installation has been fully removed in accordance with regulations</li> <li>Canceled: Project was canceled before being deployed in the water</li></ul>

Completed

Operational Duration

1981 - 1983

Project Duration

1976 - 1983

Energy Resource

Riverine

Project Scale

Full-scale

Number of Devices

1

Grid Connectivity

Not Grid Connected

Waterbody

Nile River

Site Characteristics Geographic characterization for the project location:<ul> <li>Open Ocean: Main body of ocean, not enclosed or partially enclosed by land</li> <li>Coastal: Open water near the coast, spanning between land and shelf boundary</li> <li>Enclosed Bay: water that is partially surrounded by land, with a mouth open to larger water</li> <li>Constricted Channel: A channel where water flows quickly due to narrowing by the land</li> <li>River: Water flowing from land towards a larger body of water</li></ul>

River

Country

South Sudan

Last Modified

17 July 2025

This Project has the following MRE Devices

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“South Sudan River Current Turbine.” Marine Energy Projects Database: Projects, PRIMRE, United States Department of Energy, https:https://openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE/Databases/Projects_Database/Projects/South_Sudan_River_Current_Turbine. Accessed <day> <monthRoman> <year>.

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South Sudan River Current Turbine

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