Germany eyes DRC hydrogen project
Scheme is at very early stage and depends on a long-delayed mega-dam for which funding is uncertain
Spanish and Chinese firms have created a consortium to develop the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) much-maligned Inga III hydroelectric project, and the Kinshasa government now wants to add a hydrogen plant to the sprawling complex on the banks of the Congo River. In August, representatives from German natural gas company VNG and hydroelectric specialists Andritz and Voith travelled to the DRC to discuss the hydrogen project and met with President Felix Tshisekedi. “Today, it is a rough idea. We have brought some people together who are thinking about and discussing it,” says Oliver Hill, VNG’s director of corporate development, who was part of the delegation and was told the projec
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