Grand Inga

Grand Inga on Central Africa s Congo River... 

While Grand Inga was being revived in the engineering world, electricity itself was undergoing redefinition. Once accepted as an aspect of public goods and services for... 

Grand Inga s power has never been considered for rural electrification and domestic use. It has only ever been intended for areas of high commercial demand -large cities and industrial areas - and for production of an export commodity. 

Grand Inga s enormous cost - initially estimated at USS 50,000 million - seemed less impossible in the early 21st century than when first contemplated in the mid-20th. A consortium of oil companies paid US 627 million in 2006 for the right to explore Canada s Orphan Basin in the deep sea off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Each test well, when drilled, could cost US 50,000 million - the... 

Fig. 95.5 Proposed Grand Inga electricity corridors ( highways ). (Source Inga Hydroelectric Facility. Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy, USA. http //www. eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/inga.html)...

Grand Inga Comes One Step Closer. (2008). International water power and dam construction, 18 June 2008. Retrieved October 23, 2009, from http //www.waterpowermagazine.com/ storey.asp StoryCode=249970... 

Showers, K. B. (2009). Congo River s Grand Inga hydroelectricity scheme Linking environmenuil history, policy and impact. Water History, i(l), 31-58. 

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