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Zengamina is a small hydroelectric power generation plant near Kalene Hill, Mwinilunga District in northwestern Zambia. It was built between 2004 and 2008 at a cost of about $3 million, or $4,285 per kilowatt of power.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Micro Hydro Costs Compared )〕 ==Background== Before the power plant was opened most people had no electricity, using wood or kerosene for cooking. Those who could afford it used diesel generators to provide electricity.〔 The Zambian national electricity grid ends from the Ikelenge area.〔 The local people were trapped in a poverty cycle, living through unsustainable slash-and-burn subsistence farming.〔 The Zengamina project aimed to provide a reliable electrical supply with a small hydroelectrical station on the Zambezi River at a fast-moving point close to its source.〔 The Zambezi at this location drops over a length of rapids.〔 The potential for power generation on the Zambezi rapids was identified in 1964, but without funding nothing was done. In 2001 Dr Peter Gill, an orthopedic surgeon in the United Kingdom, launched a trust to fund the project. The primary motive was to reduce the cost of providing electricity to the Kalene hospital, which serves people in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as Zambia, in a period when diesel fuel costs were continuing to rise. The Zambian government provided some seed funding, and church groups in Britain managed to raise another $2.5 million to cover construction costs.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zengamina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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