Meanwhile, on completion, the 6,450 MW Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam will be the seventh largest in the world. The NGOs deplored the lack of a resettlement plan for thousands of villagers that would be displaced by the project and called for the involvement of civil society and local communities in all the phases of development.

Published on The Inga III dam would be the biggest hydroelectric power station on Africa’s second-longest river and provide much-needed electricity to Congo and other nations, including South Africa.

Most of the electricity generated by Inga III is meant for South Africa, other African markets or Congo’s copper and cobalt miners. Updates with calls to Beijing office in eighth paragraph.

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Siret 838399186 00077 Paris There are already some huge dam projects underway in Africa. Similarly, EU officials are now ruling out the possibility that the European Investment Bank (EIB) will invest up to €800 million ($980 million) in Inga as it was considering several years ago.

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Inga III is part of a long-delayed plan known as Grand Inga that’s eventually intended to harness as much as 40,000 megawatts of power from the Congo River.

The DRC wants to make it a continental concern. The Grand Inga Dam project The Inga project is estimated to produce 40000MW. The Congo River is the deepest in the world. “With an estimated capacity of 44,000 megawatts, the Grand Inga project will be able to meet a significant share – up to 40% – of Africa’s electricity demand at a competitive price and in a sustainable manner,” said President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi. Under the initial plan for Inga 3, South Africa was to get 2,500 MW of the 4,800 MW generated, while Katanga’s mining industry would get 1,300 MW. Editor in chief : Jean Marie Takouleu Have a confidential tip for our reporters?

Congo has struggled to contain the second-worst Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than 2,100 people since it was first discovered in August 2018. Construction had been due to begin in 2018, but in July 2017, Bruno Kapandji, director-general of the Congolese Agency for the Development of Inga (ADPI), announced some changes. In July 2016, the World Bank halted a $73 million grant for environmental and social studies after Kabila put the Inga agency under his direct control.

This extensive roster of worries suggests that the project will not be transforming Africa’s second biggest country any time soon. By clicking "Accept", you agree to this use of cookies and data. The provision of renewable energy would also offer an alternative to charcoal for cooking, removing the main cause of deforestation and CO2 emissions in Central Africa. Green economy and sustainable growth in Africa, DRC: Government unites Africa around the Grand Inga hydroelectric project.

Yet crucially, none of this changes the fact that Inga retains the potential to be the world’s single biggest hydropower site and provider of enormous quantities some of the cheapest and cleanest energy on the globe. The 2,070 MW Lauca and 2,170 MW Caculo Cabaça dams in Angola, for example, will jointly supply most of that country’s power. Le barrage Grand Inga est un projet hydroélectrique sur le Congo en République démocratique du Congo. It is the largest in Africa, and the government intends to use it primarily to boost the country’s economic development. And the Congolese government would generate huge revenues, benefiting from what the World Bank and African Development Bank have estimated would be the world’s lowest production costs at approximately 3 cents per kWh. The government, meanwhile, may consider scaling back Inga III to an earlier, 4,800-megawatt design the Spanish and Chinese partners don’t see as economically viable. Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on Twitter. The Grand Inga Dam could change the face of the continent – if only it didn’t keep getting bogged down.The ambitious project has faced numerous delays and disagreements, most recently last year. > Copyright and reproduction rights Spanish, Chinese developers submitted joint proposal last year, China Three Gorges now cites ‘serious differences’ in letter.

For example, power purchase agreements are usually a precondition for bank financing, but while South Africa and Nigeria have expressed an interest in buying electricity from Inga, negotiations with neither them nor transit countries have even started.

China has notably not publicly renewed its 2015 pledge to finance the Inga project through its Eximbank. Photogrpaher: Marc Jourdier/AFP via Getty Images.

The company that heads the Spanish consortium, AEE Power SA, declined to comment.

The political crisis in the DRC itself adds to these complications. In 2013, South Africa committed to purchasing 2,500 megawatts generated by the facility and late last year indicated it might double that amount.

However, they were unable to agree on the project’s development and the percentage of each party’s share, the main company in the Chinese consortium, China Three Gorges Corp., said in a Sept. 20 letter to Bruno Kapandji, the head of Congo’s Agency for the Development and Promotion of the Grand Inga Project, or ADPI.