The government of Angola has fully commissioned the 2,004 MW Laúca hydropower project, which produced first power in June 2019. The facility entails six turbines with an installed capacity of 334 MW each, provided by the Austrian plant engineering group Andritz, and an additional auxiliary generation turbine will be added in 2021. The power plant is owned by Angola's state-run power utility Empresa Nacional de Electricidade (ENE) and Odebrecht is the civil engineering and electromechanical assembly contractor. The dam's construction took part under the framework of Angola's 2012-2017 National Development Plan and its cost amounted around US$4.5bn. It will deliver electricity to 10 million people, reaching in particular the Angolese central provinces of Huambo and Bié. The government plans to build a 400 kV power transmission line to supply 500 MW of electricity from the plant to Luanda.
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