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Emergency project to reinforce Maputo/Matola electricity grid – Mozambique
12:37 CAT | 10 Oct 2016
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The cities of Maputo and Matola may solve, or at least minimise, their power supply problems, if a proposed emergency reinforcement and rehabilitation of the transmission and distribution networks is implemented.
Mozambique Electricity Company (EDM) is currently working on the procurement process, with the aim of having have extra capacity in substations 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8, and rehabilitating and strengthening the distribution network in the capital and in Matola.
The same project would rehabilitate substations in Infulene, Matola-Gare, Belulane and Boane, and install 66 kV underground cables in Maputo city.
EDM expects to have a pre-qualified bidders by the end of November, after which they will be called to submit final proposals. The tender note adds that the project will last 36 months from the signing of contracts.
The project is regarded as “important, but late” given that these large cities have for years faced serious problems with the availability and quality of their power supply.
If the situation is barely manageable in the built-up areas, it becomes more complicated still in suburban and overflow neighbourhoods like Albazine, Magoanine, Nkobe, Matlemele, Boquisso, Intaka and Muhalaze.
Other cities covered by the project are Nacala, in Nampula province, and Quelimane, Zambezia province, where improvements in the availability and expansion of power supply are also expected.
Source: Noticias
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