{"id":"2026-oct-plus-africa-drc-kalumbila-kolwezi-interconnector-memo-oct6","canonicalSlug":"2026-oct-plus-africa-drc-kalumbila-kolwezi-interconnector-memo-oct6","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct-plus-africa-drc-kalumbila-kolwezi-interconnector-memo-oct6","language":"en","title":"DRC-Zambia power-link memorandum opens project assessment phase","summary":"FIS-RDC and three partners signed an investment memorandum for a planned 190 km, 330 kV Kalumbila–Kolwezi interconnector.","body":["The DRC’s Strategic Investment Fund, FIS-RDC, said it and EnPower, Gridworks Partners and Trafigura signed an investment memorandum in Kinshasa on 6 October for the Kalumbila–Kolwezi Interconnector Project. The planned link would connect Kalumbila in Zambia with Kolwezi in the DRC’s Lualaba province.","FIS-RDC describes a 190 km, 330 kV line, three associated substations and N-1 redundancy. The project aims to improve power availability and reliability for the Lualaba and Haut-Katanga mining corridor. The memorandum formalises the partners’ intention to structure the project and starts detailed assessment; it does not report a completed line or operating capacity."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"DRC-Zambia power-link memorandum opens project assessment phase\n\nFIS-RDC and three partners signed an investment memorandum for a planned 190 km, 330 kV Kalumbila–Kolwezi interconnector.\n\nThe DRC’s Strategic Investment Fund, FIS-RDC, said it and EnPower, Gridworks Partners and Trafigura signed an investment memorandum in Kinshasa on 6 October for the Kalumbila–Kolwezi Interconnector Project. The planned link would connect Kalumbila in Zambia with Kolwezi in the DRC’s Lualaba province.\n\nFIS-RDC describes a 190 km, 330 kV line, three associated substations and N-1 redundancy. The project aims to improve power availability and reliability for the Lualaba and Haut-Katanga mining corridor. The memorandum formalises the partners’ intention to structure the project and starts detailed assessment; it does not report a completed line or operating capacity.","category":"energy","region":"world","topics":["power","mining"],"eventDate":"2026-10-06","eventDateBasis":"source-reported-memorandum-signing-date","publishedAt":"2026-10-10T15:05:43Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-10T15:05:43Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-10T15:03:52Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-06","translatedAt":"2026-10-10T14:51:35Z","sources":[{"url":"https://www.fisrdc.com/fr/actualites/kkip/","name":"FIS-RDC Strategic Investment Fund","checkedAt":"2026-10-10","attribution":"FIS-RDC, 6 October 2026, official project announcement. Original factual reporting; no source prose, image or graphics reproduced. © FIS-RDC; no open reuse licence identified.","publishedAt":"2026-10-06"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct-plus-africa-drc-kalumbila-kolwezi-interconnector-memo-oct6","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/2026-oct-plus-africa-drc-kalumbila-kolwezi-interconnector-memo-oct6","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/2026-oct-plus-africa-drc-kalumbila-kolwezi-interconnector-memo-oct6","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/2026-oct-plus-africa-drc-kalumbila-kolwezi-interconnector-memo-oct6","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/2026-oct-plus-africa-drc-kalumbila-kolwezi-interconnector-memo-oct6","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/2026-oct-plus-africa-drc-kalumbila-kolwezi-interconnector-memo-oct6","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/2026-oct-plus-africa-drc-kalumbila-kolwezi-interconnector-memo-oct6"},"corrections":[],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["project-update"],"geographies":[{"role":"event-location","countryCode":"CD","subdivisionCode":null},{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"CD","subdivisionCode":null},{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"ZM","subdivisionCode":null}],"evidenceBasis":["agreement","plan"],"measurementPeriod":null}}