Mozambique: EDM unlikely to meet this year’s target

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Mozambique: EDM unlikely to meet this year’s target

10:14 CAT | 23 Apr 2020

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Mozambique’s public electricity company, EDM, may be forced to revise downwards this year’s target for new connections to the national electricity grid, because of the constraints caused by the pandemic of the new coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

Cited in Wednesday’s issue of the Maputo daily “Noticias”, EDM spokesperson Luis Amado said the company is assessing the impact of the disease on its portfolio of projects, and its plans to bring electricity to more consumers.

“EDM is not an island”, he said, and just like every other company, it would suffer the economic fallout from the pandemic.

Prior to the outbreak of Covid-19, EDM had hoped that it would establish at least 300,000 new connections, mostly to homes, this year.

If the target is indeed reduced, it would be the second consecutive year that EDM has been forced to change its plans. In 2019, EDM had also planned to make 300,000 new connections, but cyclones Idai and Kenneth, which struck the country in March and April, made it impossible to fulfil these plans.

By the end of 2019, EDM had only achieved 165,000 new connections, or 55 per cent of the target figure.

Source: AIM