Africa-Press – Angola. The electrification project for municipal headquarters in the province of Huambo could be completed in December 2024, the Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, assured this Tuesday.
According to the official, who completed a two-day working day in Huambo, the challenge involves building an electrical substation in the municipality of Mungo, to also serve the municipal town of Londuimbali and the communal headquarters of Alto Hama.
Likewise, he added, the construction of the substation is planned in the municipality of Cachiungo, to also serve the municipal towns of Chicala-Cholohanga and Chinguar, the latter in the province of Bié.
João Baptista Borges informed that the substation to be built in the municipality of Ucuma will supply the towns of Chinjenje and Longonjo, with the connection to be made from the Caála electrical substation.
He said that, within the framework of the electrification challenges of the province of Huambo, the construction of a high voltage energy transmission line for the municipality of Ecunha is underway, with a capacity of 30 kilowatts and benefiting, in the first phase, close to 60 thousand citizens.
Until now, the municipalities of Huambo, Caála and Bailundo, in addition to the commune of Calenga, are connected to the national electricity grid, from the Belém do Dango substation, on the outskirts of the city of Huambo.
“Huambo province currently has six municipal towns without electrification, as work on the Ecunha line is at an advanced pace and the intention is to have a positive balance of the interconnection project in this region of the country by December 2024” , he said.
According to the minister, this project will be a significant step towards expanding access to electricity, given the democratic growth rate of the neighborhoods, which, in turn, need to have schools and hospitals in permanent operation, in addition to the challenges of the Angolan Government that include reducing energy costs.
João Baptista Borges said that the Ministry of Energy and Water intends, with this challenge, to increasingly include the private sector in the electricity commercialization process.
During a two-day working visit to the municipality of Huambo, the Minister of Energy and Water laid the first stone for the construction of the photovoltaic solar park in the municipality of Bailundo, with the capacity to generate 7,992 megawatts of clean and cheap energy.
Afterwards, the minister, accompanied by the governor of the province of Huambo, Lotti Nolika, learned about the project to expand the electricity network in the Boa Esperança neighborhood, on the outskirts of the municipal town of Bailundo, and then moved from the municipality of Ecunha , where he saw the works on the transport line, covering a 24-kilometre route, as well as the water collection plant.
At the headquarters of the province, made up of the municipalities of Calima, Chipipa and Sede, the latter with six sectors and 433 neighborhoods, the governor visited the project to expand the electricity network in the Utalamo and Lossambo neighborhoods, on the outskirts of the city of Huambo.
This is a project that covers a total of two thousand 800 household connections in six neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city of Huambo, whose residents are committed to preserving the equipment and reporting any attempted vandalization.
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