South Africa’s reliance on Inga 3 hydropower project ‘a grave risk’, organisations warn

Civil society organisations International Rivers and WoMin African Alliance have published a report that they say provides, for the first time, an independent and authoritative account of the true cost of the Inga 3 hydropower project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for South Africa.   The report’s conclusions are “dire yet clear” in that offtaking hydropower from Inga 3 will be “too costly and an unmitigated disaster” for the country, the organisations state. South Africa intends to procure at least 2 500 MW of hydropower produced at Inga 3, but construction on that project has yet to start.