Mozambique: EDM electrifies two more administrative posts

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Mozambique: EDM electrifies two more administrative posts

5:04 CAT | 02 Apr 2025

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Mozambique’s publicly owned electricity company, EDM, announced on Wednesday that, in the last week of March, it connected a further two administrative posts to the national grid.

The posts connected are Calipo, in Mogovolas district, in the northern province of Nampula, and Regone in Namarroi district, in the central province of Zambezia. In each of the posts, about 500 households are now benefitting from electricity.

EDM said that, with these connections, it has met its target of linking two administrative posts to the national grid in the first 100 days of the new government.

EDM added that it has greatly surpassed its target for new household electricity connections. The target for the 100 days was 45,000 new connections, but EDM managed to connect 90,000 new consumers to the national grid.

Calipo was connected to the grid on 29 March. The work involved building 34 kilometres of medium voltage transmission line from the town of Nametil to Calipo. Five transformer posts and 120 street lamps for public lighting were also installed.

The work at Regone was completed on 26 March, and involved building 25 kilometres of medium tension transmission line from the Namarroi district capital.

With the electrification of Calipo, 59 of the 70 administrative posts in Nampula province are now connected to the national grid. In Zambezia, 43 of the 49 posts are now connected.

The electrification of Calipo and Regone was entirely financed by the Mozambican state budget. For Calipo, the total investment was 117 million meticais (about 1.8 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate), while for Regone, it was 83 million meticais.

Since 2020, 73 administrative posts have been electrified, 56 through the national grid and 17 through alternative sources.

EDM’s target is to bring electricity to all Mozambicans by 2030, but the statement from EDM warns that this goal can only be met “by involving everyone in the fight against the vandalising of electrical infrastructures and the theft of electricity”.

Source: AIM