2012-05-07 - ABB is helping the Democratic Republic of the Congo
to modernize its electrical infrastructure and transport much-
needed electricity from the vast hydropower resources of the
Inga Falls to the country’s mining heartland, 1,700 km to the
south. By ABB Communications The Democratic Republic of the
Congo is rich in natural resources. Besides holding vast mineral
deposits of cobalt, copper and diamonds, the DRC is also
fortunate in having the Inga Falls - the world’s largest
waterfall by volume and probably the biggest untapped source of
renewable hydroelectric energy on the planet. According to the
World Bank, the Inga Falls have the potential to generate around
45,000 megawatts of renewable hydroelectric energy, enough to
power as many as 20 million African households – not only in the
DRC but throughout southern and western Africa as well. With
this sort of capacity the Inga Falls have long been the object
of plans to harness its vast potential by building new
hydropower plants and grid systems to