Source: Probe International

As China's Three Gorges dam nears completion, the company responsible for building and financing the world's largest dam is vying to construct an even more ambitious hydro project in central Africa.

Named after the Congo River's powerful Inga rapids, the proposed Grand Inga scheme will have an installed generating capacity of 39,000 MW, which is more than China's Three Gorges and Brazil's Itaipu dam combined. The site is 225 km downriver from the embattled capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, and thousands of kilometers north of South Africa, the continent's largest economy and a prospective buyer of Grand Inga's massive output.

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Posted by pichu at June 22, 2007 11:48 PM