Since the beginning of this Tuesday (05) of July 2022, the Ministry of Energy and Water in partnership with Associação Lusófona de Energias Renováveis (ALER) and Associação Angolana de Energias Renováveis (ASAER), promote, at the Memorial Antônio Agostinho Neto, an International Conference on Renewable Energies, whose objective is to make known the most recent developments and business opportunities in the renewable energy sector in the country. The referred conference gathers more than 300 participants from the public, private, national and international sector, in virtual and presential format.
The conference opening act was chaired by the Minister of Energy and Waters, Joao Baptista Borges, who referred the great challenges of the sector, pointing out the access rate to electricity to 50% until 2025, against the current 42.8% in a universe of 33 million inhabitants.
He also pointed out that the developments in progress are related to the expansion of the flow capacity of this electricity production, with the interconnection of the Centre and South regions and the North and East regions, integrating at least 7 more provinces and continuing to expand the distribution network in the interior of the national territory.
He also said that with these challenges, the State would save hundreds of millions of litres of fuel that are annually consumed in thermal power stations. He also referred that more than one million new home connections are being made.
João Baptista Borges also said that the country intended to take significant steps in the use of the resources we have in abundance, which is the case of the sun.
He noted that Angola had a high potential solar resource, with average annual global horizontal radiation of between 1,370 and 2,100 KWh/m2/year.
He noted that based on these resources, the national strategy for renewable energy provided for the possibility of installing solar parks estimated at 55,000 MW, or almost 10 times more than the country’s installed production capacity.
He concluded that this is the first conference to address this issue that we held in the country and certainly that the experience to be acquired will move us to other experiences or initiatives so that we continue to rely on the collaboration of our partners in ASAER-Angolan Association of Renewable Energy, in addition to the representations of different countries that make up the ALER-Associação Lusófona nas Energias Renováveis, an entity which I am pleased to announce our membership.
The event also included the following panels:
*The State of Play of Renewables in Angola and Opportunity for the Future;
*Institutional and Legal Framework
*National Energy Profile
*Grid-Connected Renewable Energy Projects, among others.
The meeting was also attended by the Secretary of State for Energy, Antonio Belsa da Costa, senior officials from the electricity sub-sector of MINEA, PRODEL, RNT, ENDE, IRSEA, World Bank, Sonangol, ENI, Total Energies, MCA, Berkely Energy, Biocom and guests respectively.
MINEA’S OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION AND PRESS , Luanda, 5th July 2022.
