Jiji and Murembwe Hydroelectric Project

The Jiji and Murembwe Hydroelectric Project (French: Projet Hydroélectrique de Jiji et Murembwe, PHJIMU) is an project to build two hydroelectric power stations with shared infrastructure in the Bururi Province of Burundi.

[1] Contractors include CMC (Italy), ORASCOM (Egypt), KEC International (India) for the transmission lines and VINCI (France) for the associated stations.

The Jiji dam is upstream, directing water along a supply conduit to a tunnel which leads to the forebay.

[5] The Burundian government started the project to build hydroelectric dams on the Jiji and Murembwe rivers in 2013.

[7] In September 2022 Gervais Ndirakobuca, prime minister of Burundi, visited the two hydroelectic dams, where he observed cracks in the structures.