Inga I and II Dams in Nkokolo valley

Regional opposition to the Apartheid state ensured this version of regional interconnection did not happen. But the idea of long distance transmission at a continental scale from Inga Falls was kept alive by Egyptian engineers. 

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 

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Fig. 95.3 Inga I and II Dams in Nkokolo valley. (Source Google Earth)...

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