Sustainable Energy Revolution in DR Congo
In the quest to tackle energy challenges in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), JNTech is spearheading the adoption of hybrid solar-diesel microgrid systems. These systems are
The public version of the resulting report of the effort is available here. The Democratic Republic of Congo's national electric-ity access rate is estimated at 19%. Less than 1% of the rural population and 41% of the urban population has energy access. Of the country's 10 million house-holds, only 1.6 million have have access to electricity.
The DRC aims to connect 32% of the country to elec-tricity by 2030. Meeting this challenge will require co-ordinated efforts from various stakeholders, support-ive policies and regulations, and technical assistance support to prospective projects in order to attract in-vestments.
Energy poverty is at-tributed to factors such as cost tariffs, poor utility per-formance and lack of financial viability, compounded by governance issues. There is no interconnected national power transmis-sion network in the DRC, which is instead structured into three independent interprovincial grids.
The DRC is expected to produce 16,050 tons of elec-trical and electronic waste, according to a study car-ried out by the Belgian group, Groupe One. There are currently no regulations or legislative frameworks concerning e-waste.
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