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Off-grid in Angola

Portugal’s MCA group has switched on two large-scale off-grid solar-plus-storage projects in Angola since December 2025. Carlo Amado, the company’s chief operating officer of energies, spoke to pv magazine about how the projects fit into Angola’s rural electrification program, which aims to build 46 autonomous solar and storage minigrids to provide reliable electricity to 60 communities across six provinces.
The Cazombo ­project in eastern Angola combines 25.4 MW of off-grid solar and a 75.26 MWh BESS. | Photo: MCA

Zambian state-owned power company ZESCO has commissioned the second phase of the Chisamba solar power plant, doubling the complex’s generation capacity to 200 MW. The first phase of the Chisamba project was completed by May 2025. It was developed by ZESCO’s subsidiary Kariba North Bank Extension Power Corp, with Powerchina working as the engineering, procurement …

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