Angola, like most sub-Saharan African nations, faces a tough problem with power generation. The Ministry of Energy and Water’s deputy director Job Vilinga said at the 7th German and African Energy Forum that the current situation facing the power sector was limitation in power production capacity as well as the high cost of electricity; public companies’ financial dilemmas; and high state subsidies and medium tariffs.
The director said the government’s priority to combat this problem was to look to renewable energy, promoting technologies specifically geared for rural electrification. In September, the southern African country saw the opening of a local renewable energy company in Luanda. Opaia opened a manufacturing facility to produce multi-technologic solar energy. And most recently the country signed an agreement with Norway to expand its renewable energy ventures over the next two years.
Plans are also in place to increase the capacity by an interconnection scheme of three main electrical systems. Vilinga said that five new power stations would be built by 2016.
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