Angola to achieve 60 percent electrification by 2025
AS ANGOLA endeavours to increase electricity access to the majority of the population, the country has forecasted a 60 percent electricity access rate to be achieved by 2025. The joint forces of France and the World Bank have collectively underwritten €344 million in an attempt to connect the provinces of Benguela, Huambo,
Huila and Luanda to the national grid. With the aim of increasing access to cheaper, and more reliable sustainable electricity, this push will benefit households, industries, businesses and small to medium sized enterprises.
Currently, only one third of
Angola’s population has access to reliable electricity and constraints in electricity supply are considered one of the main elements hampering the country’s industrialisation. To achieve this goal, the government will create three separate agencies responsible for transmission, generation and distribution.
Aimed at achieving efficiency and eliminating waste, transmission lines will be expected to move from the current 2850 kilometres to 15,600 kilometres by 2025 on lines of 60 kilovolts, 220 kilovolts and 400 kilovolts. The project is expected to hasten Angola’s urbanisation.