Africa-Press – Angola. The ministers of Energy and Water of Angola, João Baptista Borges, and the minister of Mines and Energy of the Republic of Namibia, Tom Allweendo, meet, at the Laúca Dam, municipality of Cacuso, with the aim of taking decisions on important issues for the construction of the Baynes Hydroelectric Power Plant (AHB).
The project will be built on the Cunene River, on the international border with the Republic of Namibia, approximately 48 kilometers downstream of Epupa Falls, 200 kilometers from Ruacaná, where the river crosses the Baynes Gorge.
According to the director of AHB/Angola, Mateus Catumbela, the meeting will dominate aspects related to the environmental, technical and economic feasibility study, project implementation model, resettlement plan for communities to be affected by the project and the Implementation.
He made it known that the value for implementing the development is set at 1.375 billion US dollars, to be shared between the two States during the five years of implementation, the amount of which does not include the construction of associated infrastructures, such as the project access road and power transmission lines.
The Baynes AHE will consist of a roller-compacted concrete dam, with a height of 200 meters, a crown length of 25 meters, a reservoir length of 40 kilometers and a flooded area of 58.15 square kilometers at a full storage level.
The main dam’s generation plant will have a power of 860 MW, with 4 units of 215 MW, 430 MW for Angola and 430 MW for Namibia, ensuring the integration of AHE Baynes into the national energy networks of the respective countries, through of the Angola/Namibia regional integration network (ANNA).
A regulation dam is also planned, where a power plant will be installed with 3 units of 7 MW each, totaling 21 MW of power, as well as a flood area (“footprint” of the reservoir), extending for approximately 6 kilometers. upstream.
The dam wall will be simultaneously used as a road crossing connecting the western road corridor of Angola and Namibia.
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