Why wind and solar would offer the DRC and South Africa better energy deals than Inga 3
GRACE C WU, Smith Conservation Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara RANJIT DESHMUKH, Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara SEVEN years ago the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) proposed the Inga 3 – a 4.8GW hydropower project on the Congo River – with great fanfare. Third, in a series of dams that would form the Grand Inga complex on the Congo river, the project was touted as a solution to southern Africa’s energy deficit woes and a way for the DRC to participate in regional economic development. Seven years later, development of Inga 3 has…