Efacec (I. dos Santos) can only sit back and watch the damage

摘要

It seems there is no let-up in the nearfuture for Sao Tome & Principe, which hasbeen struggling to cope with recurrentpower outages since the end of 2018.According to our information, the techniciansof Portuguese group Efacec PowerSolutions, controlled by Angolan billionaireIsabel dos Santos, sent to repair broken-down power plants ( AEI 829) havereportedly found the 4.5 MW thermalpower plant Santo Amaro II to be beyondrepair. Maintenance had never been doneto the facility. The island nation, which hadan estimated capacity of 18 MW in 2016,could easily face further power shortages.A total 8.5 MW of that power is generatedby the Santo Amaro I power station managedby Taiwan Electrical & MechanicalEngineering Services (TEMES) and thecountry chose to break off its ties withTaiwan in favour of China in 2016. In earlyMay, Mario Sousa, the director of thenational power utility Empresa de Aguae Electricidade (EMAE), was banned fromleaving national territory due to a probeinto the running of the company.