Africa Outlook

Angola to achieve 60 percent electrific­ation by 2025

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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.

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