Africa-Press – Angola. The Government of Angola will save 19 million liters of fuel per year, with the inauguration, this Tuesday, of the “Saurimo Photovoltaic Park, Lunda Sul”, by the Ministry of Energy and Water (MINEA), it was found out today.
According to a press release this Monday, the use of clean electrical energy will also avoid the emission of more than 68 thousand tons of CO2 per year.
With an installed power of 26.13 megawatts (MW), the park will produce green electricity to supply 171,565 people in the province of Luanda Sul.
This action is part of the objective of the Government of Angola, identified in the “Energia Angola 2025” plan, which aims to diversify the country’s energy matrix and have around 60 percent of its rural population have access to electricity.
Budgeted at 38.8 million euros, the project includes a total of 44,850 solar panels and will produce more than 49,000 MWh/year.
The report states that to transport this energy, a 15 kV medium voltage line will be built that will connect the solar park to the sectioning station, which will be prepared for future connections to the Tchicumina, Nhama sectioning stations and the interconnection of the Hidrochicapa line.
The Saurimo Photovoltaic Park is part of a group of seven, with a total capacity of 370 MWp, in the provinces of Benguela, Huambo, Bié, Lunda-Norte (in Lucapa) and Moxico (in Luena), which should be operational by end of the current year.
As a whole, the seven solar parks were developed by an international consortium made up of the companies Sun Africa and MCA, with the latter handling the engineering component and the respective construction, enabling the supply of renewable and clean electricity to around 2.4 million people. Angolans, also contributing to the annual reduction of pollutant emissions of around one million tons of CO2 (carbon dioxide).
Solar parks also eliminate the need to consume around 1.4 million liters of diesel in generators and thermal production, with highly polluting effects, which will allow significant savings in fuel import costs.
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