Sonangol inaugurated, on Friday December 22, in Luanda, a gas station with a photovoltaic energy source, an investment of 254 thousand dollars that constitutes the first of a project of 17 that the company will replicate throughout the country from 2024.
The company, which is implementing its energy transition strategy, employs 102 photovoltaic panels at the Anduri Supply Station, located in the municipality of Icolo e Bengo, Estrada Nacional 230, 120 kilometers from the center of Luanda, in addition to a charging system of batteries and autonomy to operate 24 hours a day.
The infrastructure was inaugurated by the president of the Executive Committee of Sonangol Distribuição e Comercialização, Eusébio Vunge, and by the president of the Executive Committee of Sonangol Gás e Energias Renováveis, Manuel Barros, who expressed themselves “proud” of the project.
The company, according to statements made at the inauguration, considers that the post constitutes “an important step towards Sonangol’s energy transition”.
According to Eusébio Vunge, Sonangol’s strategic guidelines assume that up to 12 percent of the investment program of the oil company, in 2024, will be destined for renewable energy.
“By 2030, we must have 25 percent of our operations in renewable energy and decarbonize our operations: this is an important step in that direction,” he said.
The president of the Executive Committee of Sonangol Gás & Energias Renováveis, Manuel Barros, said, on the occasion, that this first photovoltaic project, budgeted at 254 thousand dollars and 100 percent investment from the oil company, is the result of a “gigantic effort” by the company.
Manuel Barros considered the position “an important milestone for the sustainability” of the company’s operations and, “above all, for the national contribution determined in efforts to reduce gas emissions”.
