Luanda - The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, announced on Wednesday in Luanda the start of a Green Hydrogen exploration project next year in the town of Barra do Dande, Bengo province.
Speaking at the Panel “Youth, actors in the promotion of the culture of peace and social transformations of the continent/High-Level Dialogue”, within the scope of the 3rd Biennale of Luanda, the Head of State explained that the project will be developed by Sonangol, the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas and a German company.
According to the President, who was responding to a concern about Angola's contribution to the reduction of polluting gases, the objective is to serve the internal market and export green energy to Europe and other consumers around the world.
In his approach, João Lourenço said that, with the same purpose, Angola will sign, at the COP 28 Summit, taking place this month in Dubai, an initiative on the need to decarbonize oil and gas.
He said that, in addition to this UN initiative, there are others from international institutions that Angola will join, so that its oil and gas industry will soon have the capacity to measure carbon hydroxide emissions and reduce, as much as possible, carbon dioxide and methane gas emissions.
“These are the concrete measures that Angola is taking to contribute to the strategy against polluting gas emissions,” he stressed.
As for energy production in Angola, the Head of State said that the country is committed to the fight against climate change and participates in all struggles within the framework of the COPs.
To this end, he said, it has been working to reduce the burning of fossil fuels, using less and less fuels from thermal power plants to produce electricity.
He said that the country has made a major investment in the construction of Hydroelectric Plants and highlighted three large dams built around the Lower Kwanza Basin.
“This energy is allowing the reduction in the use of thermal power plants. We have a capacity of about six thousand gigawatts, but we are using just over half of it. We have investments to make in transporting this energy to the south and east of the country, then to the north and center,” he said.
According to the Angolan President, the country wants to put its surplus energy into the SADC grid, which already exists and works.
'Our energy matrix has about 65/67 percent of the energy supplied from clean energy, from the plants I mentioned and from the solar parks that are in operation in some parts of the country, Benguela, Namibe', he declared.
President Joao Lourenço recalled that a few days ago, a major solar project was launched to serve the communes of the provinces of Malanje, Lunda Norte, Moxico and Bié, and there is another large energy project being financed by Exim Bank, which will improve energy distribution in southern Angola. FMA/ART/ADR/DOJ
