Publication date: 2014, May
Author: MHRE
Description: The Democratic Republic of Congo has abundant and diverse energy resources:
- Renewable (biomass, hydraulic, solar, wind, geothermal, biofuel, biogas...);
- Non-renewable (oil, natural gas, mineral coal, uranium, oil shale, tar sands,...).
Despite enormous hydropower potential estimated at 100,000 MW, the access of the population to electricity rate is 9%.
