Mozambique: HCB will have enough water to produce electricity to the end of this year

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Mozambique: HCB will have enough water to produce electricity to the end of this year

12:07 CAT | 04 Mar 2025

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Current water levels in the Cahora Bassa reservoir guarantee the production of electricity until the last quarter of this year. This is the result of the water reserves accumulated during this rainy season, after levels fell to 19.18% in January, the lowest level in recent times.

According to the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cahora Bassa Hydroelectric Plant (HCB), Tomás Matola, who was speaking in Maputo recently at the launch of the “Journalism Award commemorating the 50th anniversary of HCB”, the reservoir currently has an estimated storage level of 24.18 percent, with an expected increase as it rains, mainly upstream. “Little by little, we are emerging from the critical situation in which we find ourselves and which forced us to make major adjustments to our operational plan for the production of electrical energy from July of last year, with an impact on the reduction of exported electrical current.

Fortunately, with the rainfall that fell in February, we were able to recover and our hydro-meteorological forecasts show that more rain is coming and storage will naturally increase,” Matola predicted.

It is also expected that the Cahora Bassa reservoir will generate more revenue, both from its own flow and from the tributes from the rivers tributaries to the Zambezi, such as Aruângua, in Zambia, and thus fully respond to the demand for electricity not only from the domestic market but also from the Southern African region.

“Even if the levels remain as they are, there is no cause for alarm, because we have enough water to produce electricity without restrictions domestically. Naturally, production would be lower and we would have less external revenue, but we would always have electricity for Mozambicans,” Matola explained.

In addition to Mozambique, Cahora Bassa supplies electricity to South Africa and Zimbabwe.

A power transmission line between Tete and Malawi is also under construction.

Source: Noticias