Voith has been awarded a contract valued at more than €100M to supply equipment for a new hydroelectric project that will double the installed capacity in Angola.
Under the terms of the contract, Voith will supply and install four generators and turbines as well as the control and associated systems for the Cambambe II project on the River Kwanza.
The capacity of the four generator-turbine-units provided for Cambambe II adds up to a total of over 700MW. The new hydropower plant is built next to the existing facility of Cambambe I allowing the new plant to use the infrastructure and dam already available.
“The order in Africa is an important success for Voith," said Dr. Roland Münch, President & CEO of the company’s hydropower branch Voith Hydro. "With our supply, we are contributing sustainably to the economic development of Angola."
With the new Cambambe II project, Voith Hydro continues its long-term activities as hydropower plant supplier in Angola and other African countries. In the Cambambe I hydropower plant Voith recently finished extensive modernization work which has increased output by around 40%. In Ethiopia, the company has equipped the Gilgel Gibe II which has doubled the country’s installed hydropower capacity raised the share of the rural population supplied with electricity from 15 to 50%. For the pumped storage facility Ingula in South Africa, Voith at present is providing the complete electromechanical equipment.
Image: Cambambe I project
