 Construction of a hydroelectric dam on the river near Kaléta was completed in June 2015 and commissioned on 28 September at a cost of $526 million; the -long dam lies about  or north of the capital city of Conakry.In 2015, the central government contracted with Chinese firms to begin building a dam near Souapiti, about further upstream, which would almost double Guinea's power generation output at an estimated cost of $2 billion.This would, however, require that 15,000 people move out of what would become a flood plain.