Washington -Angolan head of State João Lourenço said Wednesday in Washington that the country depends less and less on the production of energy from thermal power stations.
João Lourenço, who was addressing a Business Forum, within the framework of the US-Africa Leaders Summit, said that the country is partially abandoning polluting production sources.
Speaking on the topic “Building the Sustainable Future, Partnerships to Finance African Infrastructures and the Energy Transition”, the Angolan Statesman said the country invests heavily in hydroelectric energy.
“Right now, the production of electricity in Angola is less and less from polluting sources, from thermal power plants powered by diesel or gas”, underlined the Statesman.
The president pointed to the Laúca and Cambambe dams, with the Caculo Cabaça dam under construction, with capacity to produce around 2.1 gigawatts of energy.
With the arrival of this last dam, he said, Angola will produce 9 gigawatts of energy.
He said that the country is building, already at an advanced stage, the energy distribution network through hydroelectric power stations.
João Lourenço recalled that the distribution network for this same energy in the Kwanza River Basin is under construction, partially completed, to take the product throughout the country.
This energy, he said, already covers the central region, namely the provinces of Huambo and Bié, and the search for funding is underway to transport it to the south, in order to cover the provinces of Huíla, Namibe and Cunene.
It is also intended to cover the eastern zone, that is, the provinces of Lunda-Norte, Lunda-Sul, Moxico and Cuando Cubango.
At the same time, he said, Angola is betting on the production of solar energy, with photovoltaic parks, two of which already supply energy to the national electricity grid.
The Head of State also said that Angola intends to reach the rate of 80 percent of clean energy, within 3 years.
To this end, the Executive continues to invest in solar energy production projects, one of which is the largest the country will ever see, to be built in the south of Angola, to benefit the provinces of Namibe, Huíla, Cunene and Cuando Cubango.
It will be carried out by the US company Sun Africa, with financing from Eximbank, in the amount of 2 billion USD.
“At least in this branch of clean energy production, Angola is already benefiting from the funding and knowledge of American companies in this field”, he concluded.
Source: Angola Press News Agency