Post-election conflict affects delivery of Malawi-Mozambique electrical interconnection works
Mozambique’s EDM invests in electricity interconnection with southern African countries
3:03 CAT | 03 Aug 2022
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Mozambique’s electricity grid will in the near future be linked to those of Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia, among other countries, improving energy transactions within the framework of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) initiative, which aims to coordinate the electricity sector at regional level.
The information was shared in Maputo yesterday by the administrator for the Business Development Area at Empresa Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), Pedro Nguelume.
The EDM is working, in partnership with the World Bank and SAPP, to identify the appropriate financing infrastructure for the transport of electricity within the southern region.
“Our country carries out energy transactions with other countries and is currently one of the most active players in the regional market. Therefore, it needs power transmission lines so that, in the short term, it can better implement the projects and ensure that energy resources can be made available to the region,” Nguelume said.
The EDM administrator explained that the World Bank had been making an effort to bring together all stakeholders in order to attract and facilitate financing for the implementation of energy resource sharing programmes.
“At the moment we have the interconnection projects in several stages, and it is not possible to quantify, with precision, the amount necessary for the installation of the entire network,” Nguelume added.
The interconnection projects between Mozambique and each of those southern African countries are at different stages of completion, and each of the lines, with levels from 400 to 450 kilovolts, will have different usage levels, he explained.
The implementation of the programme will, Nguelume concluded, allow the achievement of the main objective of making Mozambique a regional hub in the power sector, and earning more revenue.
Source: Notícias
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