Angola begins building a 220 kV ring between Benguela and Huambo.

For a generator or a large energy buyer sited between Benguela and Huambo, the single corridor their supply depends on is being doubled. Angola's state transmission company has started work on the Lomaum to Huambo project, with the foundation stone laid on 11 September in the locality of Ganda, in the presence of the Secretary of State for Energy and the boards of the state transmission and distribution utilities.

The scope is two lines at 220 kV: Lomaum to Ganda over 36.54 kilometres, and Ganda to Belem do Dango over 117.4 kilometres. A new substation at Ganda is included, along with modification of the substation at the Lomaum hydro scheme, and 335 towers across the two routes.

The point for anyone who needs firm supply is the ring. A ring is a loop that can be fed from either direction, so a fault on one side does not have to mean a dark substation. The transmission company puts the closure of a 220 kV ring first among the project's gains, citing greater redundancy, lower risk from interruptions and voltage fluctuations, and maintenance that can be done without cutting supply.

Land is the part of the schedule a counterparty should follow. Along the route, 850 parcels and crops have been identified and registered, with owner compensation to follow under the framework in force and environmental supervision during the works.

The utility estimates direct and indirect benefits reaching about 2 million people, and is building alongside the Lobito Corridor and the Huambo to Benguela road, on the same industrial and logistics axis. Read together, this is a construction start rather than a connection offer: no energisation or commercial operation date accompanies it, so a buyer weighing a site on that axis gains a firmer grid to plan around and still has nothing dated to contract against.