Possible investors cited by the press included the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank. Kinshasa elle-même se trouve imparfaitement desservie. La RDC signe un accord de développement pour le futur barrage Inga III.
BHP Billiton propose de ramener Inga III à 3 500 MW pour alimenter son usine de production d'aluminium dans le Bas-Congo[3]. Inga I dam, with the feeding canal for Inga II in the foreground. Belgian authorities were still pushing the project while negotiating independence with Congolese delegates, with Minister Raymond Scheyven proposing a joint Congolese-Belgian company that would fund an Inga dam. Le projet Grand Inga est d'une autre nature, puisque nécessitant d'importants travaux et investissements complémentaires à Inga I, II, et III. Furthermore, the structure itself has been degraded as local peoples have used its metal bars for a variety of domestic needs.[21]. 2000), and would be the world's largest hydroelectric project.
The region with chronic power shortages is Sub Saharan Africa (South Africa excluded), where production was only 250 kWh per capita for 700 million people. One enthusiastic backer of Inga development has been South Africa. Ces deux ouvrages distincts sont dénommés Inga I et Inga II. Une bonne gestion de ces ouvrages pourrait permettre à la RD du CONGO de faire face à ses besoins internes. Les développements Inga III et Grand Inga ne sont actuellement qu'au stade de projet.
Regarding the Inga Falls location specifically, this was highlighted just four years later by the Belgian soldier, mathematician, and entrepreneur Colonel Van Deuren. They are located in the western Democratic Republic of the Congo and 140 miles southwest of Kinshasa. The mean annual flow rate of the Congo River at Inga Falls is ~42,000 cubic metres per second (1,500,000 cu ft/s). Entre la retenue d’eau et le fleuve, désormais 155 mètres de dénivelé sur le deuxième fleuve le plus puissant du monde. Ses berges atteignaient, avant mise sous eau, 150 mètres de haut au niveau des chutes d'Inga, parallèles au site. Il existe un autre projet pour un troisième barrage, dénommé projet Inga III, qui profiterait du site des barrages Inga I et Inga II. [35] The following February Eskom unveiled a new $50 billion run-of-the-river scheme. Une seconde ligne haute-tension est envisagée vers le nord en direction des pays du golfe de Guinée. The cost for the project was constantly revised upward, eventually reaching $500 million over budget. Un canal d'une longueur de quelques centaines de mètres, situé à l'ouest du barrage Inga I (45 mètres de dénivelé, 115-70 mètres), alimente le barrage Inga II (50 mètres de dénivelé, 115-65 mètres).
[40] While construction plans for phase III were reported in be on track in late 2019,[41] a major potential member of a construction consortium, Spanish firm ACS Group, dropped out in January 2020, leaving uncertainty with remaining Chinese and German partners. The New Partnership for Africa's Development, with significant involvement of South African electric power company ESKOM, suggested in 2003 to start the Grand Inga project in 2010.
Inga III is the centerpiece of the Westcor partnership which envisions the interconnection of the electric grids of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Namibia, Angola, Botswana, and South Africa.