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The city of Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, receives its electric power supply from the National Electricity Society (SNEL). The structure of Kinshasa's distribution network was inherited from its colonial period. Secondary network systems were incorporated into the main system after they emerged from new towns and villages as a consequence of the population explosion brought...
Human activities, especially those related to the exploitation, commercialisation and primary energy consumption are the underlying reason for the impoverishment of biodiversity. This impoverishment leads to the pollution and degradation (including desertification) of the soil and water, to atmospheric pollution, to the decrease of the necessary aquiferous resources in ecosystems that really need...
Early indications are that HVDC will be the technology of choice for the transmission interconnection into Africa. The dominant reasons being the quantities of power to be transferred, the length of the interconnection and the minimising of heating losses. Thus far the highest operational voltage used is the plusmn 600 kV Brazilian Itaipu system. For economical bulk power transfers over several thousand...
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