Congo switches on a 430MW solar park in its copper heartland
The first phase of the Kamoa-Kakula solar park in Kolwezi was paid for entirely with private money. The regulator says what worked there can work elsewhere in the country.
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Kolwezi — The Democratic Republic of Congo has officially brought into service the first phase of the Kamoa-Kakula solar park in Kolwezi, a 430-megawatt plant in the heart of the country's copper-mining province of Lualaba, Actualite.cd reports.
The plant was built by a partnership between the mining company Kamoa Copper and the energy investors CrossBoundary Energy and GreenWorld Énergie, and was financed entirely with private capital.
Who made it happen
- Aimé Molendo Sakombi, Minister of Water Resources and Electricity, inaugurated the first phase.
- The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ARE) handled the project's applications and contracts, certified that it met technical and grid-connection standards, and reviewed its tariff structure.
- The governor of Lualaba, Fifi Masuka Saini, was thanked for her province's cooperation.
What the regulator says
Soraya Aziz Moto, the regulator's director general, said at the ceremony that what had been achieved at Kamoa-Kakula was possible elsewhere in the country, and called the project a business success.
The ARE presented the launch as proof that Congo's electricity market can be "bankable": able to attract finance on commercial terms.
Source: Actualite.cd, 16 October 2026. Translated and paraphrased from French.
