The contract, which began in 2018, will help increase electricity generation capacity from 8.4 to 34 megawatts.
The work, budgeted at more than 212 million dollars, was financed by a credit line from China and was scheduled to end this year, but the appearance of the covid-19 pandemic has delayed the deadlines.
In view of the delays, it is estimated that power generation trials, which should have started later this year, will begin in the first half of 2021.
For the time being, work continues at a slower pace than expected because of the new coronavirus. However, despite all the setbacks, the work has never stopped completely.
Joaquim da Costa, director of the work appointed by the Ministry of Energy and Water, in the Medium Kwanza Development Office (GAMEK), revealed to Angop that the work is above 60 per cent of physical execution.
As for the hydroelectric project, the director said that the work on the plant - 25 metres wide, 20 metres long and four metres deep and where the electricity generation turbines are being placed - is 80 percent complete.
He also made it known that each turbine will produce 8.5 megawatts of electricity and that the water channel will be extended from 100 to 240 cubic metres.
Other infrastructure to support the dam will also be built, such as new stations and high-voltage transmission lines to bring electricity to the towns of Fucauma, Cassanguidi, Luxilo, Nzaji and Calonda.
The estimate is that after the dam is given as completed, 186,371 families from Dundo, Cambulo and Lucapa will have access to electricity.
