Overall, the DRC has immense energy potential, which includes non-renewable resources such as oil, natural gas and uranium, as well as renewable energy sources such as hydroelectric, biomass, solar, wind and geothermal power. The government's vision is to increase the level of service up to 32% in 2030.
Once completed, the project, in collaboration with Nuru – a solar power company in the DRC – will provide electricity to about 28,000 households and businesses that currently have expensive, unreliable or unsustainable electricity or simply no access to electricity.
The country is sitting on untapped reserves of hydropower capacity. According to the International Hydropower Association (IHA), the DRC, enriched by the Congo River, holds an exploitable hydropower potential of about 100GW. “However, socio-economic challenges have restricted exploitation to just 3%.
What's mine, is mine? The DRC has significant deposits of copper, cobalt, tin, tantalum and lithium, among other minerals. According to the Congolese government, the country has 61 active cobalt mining sites with Chinese companies mining 76% of sites and 10% is mined by Glencore.
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