Cabinda - The Angolan government will spend 800 million US dollars by 2027 to interconnect Cabinda province, in northern Angola, to the national electricity grid, the CEO of the National Transmission Network (RNT) Rui Gourgel said Friday.
The official announced that from the first half of 2025 the submarine cable is expected to be placed from the municipality of Soyo (Zaire) to Cabinda province, in a project that will be carried out in two years.
In addition to this program, RNT's CEO said there are two other projects that could, in the future, improve the electricity supply to Cabinda, one from the Inga dam (DRC) and the other from the neighboring city of Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo.
“Angola, as a member of SADC, wants to take advantage of this opportunity for electricity interconnection with neighboring countries,” he stressed.
The aim, he said, is to put an end to the huge costs incurred by the Angolan government in supplying electricity to this northernmost region of the country, which is currently supplied by gas and diesel thermal power stations.
Cabinda's deputy governor for economic sector, Macário Lembe, on his turn said the interconnection of the province to the national electricity grid is expected to boost the region's socio-economic development. ING/JFC/JL/TEDAMP
