Dondo – The Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, said Monday that the construction works of the Caculo Cabaça dam, in Cambambe municipality (Cuanza Norte), was the biggest public investment currently underway in the country.
Launched in 2017, the Caculo Cabaça hydroelectric project, under construction in Cambambe municipality, in Cuanza Norte province, will produce 2,172 megawatts (MW), and is expected to cost over USD 5 billion.
According to the project’s construction schedule, the first machine will start operating in 2024.
Caculo Cabaça will have five turbines, four of which will be at the main plant, with a nominal capacity of 530 MW each, and one at the ecological plant, with a capacity of 52 MW.
The project is part of a range of dams built in the Kwanza region, where the Cambambe (Cuanza Norte), Capanda and Laúca (Malanje) dams already stand out.
The Cabinet minister, João Baptista Borges was speaking to the press, at the end of the signing ceremony of the Collective Labour Agreement between the contractor CGGC) – CHINA GEZHOUBA GROUP COMPANY LIMITED, responsible for the construction of the Caculo Cabaça Hydroelectric Power Station and the workers’ tradeunion commission.
Source: Angola Press News Agency