Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, is Friday, in Cabinda, where he is on a work visit to assess and find out about the current situation of production and distribution of energy and water.
The city of Cabinda has experienced constant power cuts in some neighborhoods in recent months, due to the underload in some Transformation Posts (PT) and also the disturbances that have been registered in production at the Malembo Thermal Power Station.
The installation of a 90 megawatt photovoltaic plant in the locality of Santa-Catarina will be a bet for the sector to mitigate any disturbances in the supply of energy that the city of Cabinda and Vila de Lândana have experienced.
The minister went to the Malembo Thermal Power Plant, in the Malembo plain, where the main source of electricity production for the city of Cabinda and Vila de Lândana is installed, with a capacity of 170 megawasts, and also to the Chibodo substations and Santa Catarina, which produce between 25 and 10 megawatts each.
The objective, for the two substations, is to create technical mechanisms to reinforce new PTs to increase the supply capacities for the north zone of the city (Cabassango and Chibodo) and the south zone (Povo Grande and Chiweca), with the supply of energy, in the event of a disturbance at the Malembo Power Station.
The province has a power of 170.7 megawatts of energy, of which 116.75 are available to consumers distributed in several thermal power stations, managed by PRODEL, and 29 isolated electrical systems in some communal centers, with a coverage rate of 50.5 percent.
As for the water sector, the Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, visited the Cabinda Water Company, EPAS/Cabinda and the Morro do Tchizo reservoirs, which distribute water to the city of Cabinda, coming from largest collection, treatment and distribution station for the product in the locality of Sassa-Zau, commune of Malembo.
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