Portugal’s MCA group has switched on two large-scale off-grid solar-plus-storage projects in Angola since December 2025. Carlo Amado, the company’s chief operating officer of energies, spoke to pv magazine about how the projects fit into Angola’s rural electrification program, which aims to build 46 autonomous solar and storage minigrids to provide reliable electricity to 60 communities across six provinces.
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14 Aug 2026
The Cazombo project in eastern Angola combines 25.4 MW of off-grid solar and a 75.26 MWh BESS. | Photo: MCA
In December 2025, MCA switched on what it described as Africa’s largest off-grid renewable energy system. The Cazombo photovoltaic park is a 25.4 MW off-grid solar array tied to a 75.26 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS). Then in May 2026, the company announced it had broken its own record for the continent’s largest off-grid solar-plus-storage site, when …
