DRC: The INGA Dam Paradox

Congo already has electricity it cannot deliver. Inga’s problem is not the dam. Everyone is arguing about who will finance 44 gigawatts. Almost nobody is asking why the 1,775 megawatts already built runs at half output and reaches almost no one. One refurbished turbine explains it. Inga I was commissioned in 1972 with six turbines and 351 megawatts of installed capacity. Inga II followed in 1982 with eight turbines and 1,424 megawatts. Between them, the two dams have long operated at roughly half of what they were built to produce, after decades in which maintenance was deferred and the intake […] The post DRC: The INGA Dam Paradox appeared first on African Arguments.