» Giant dam projects aim to transform African power supplies - IHT
The DRC could build the world’s largest hydroelectric dam on the Congo River, producing enough power for 500 million people on the continent. And look who’s building elsewhere:
Armed with a wealth of experience in constructing large hydro dams, Chinese companies are signing on to projects in many African countries, often as elements of infrastructure investment packages in oil-producing countries. For example, China plans to build and finance a $1.5 billion, 2,000-megawatt plant in the Mambila Plateau in Nigeria, in a deal that also includes Chinese imports of the country’s oil and rights to exploit four oil blocks.
