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Mozambique’s publicly owned electricity company, EDM, expects to conclude, by 2023, the electrification of the administrative posts of Save, Chiurairwe and Mandie, in the districts of Machaze, Mossurize and Guro in the central province of Manica.
The EDM Customer Care Service Director in the provincial capital, Chimoio, Silvia Guambe, who announced the move on Wednesday, said that the electrification of the three administrative posts is part of the “Energy for All” programme, intended to ensure universal access to electricity by 2030.
“Currently, studies are underway to ensure the project’s fulfillment. We currently have 36 administrative posts not yet connected to the national grid, and the goal is to expand electricity access to all of them. By 2030, the whole province must be illuminated by the power from the national grid,” Guambe declared.
By the end of 2023, she stressed, the electrification of the three regions will have been concluded and the company plans to target Nhamassonge and Mavonde in Guro and Manica districts.
The company’s challenge for the ongoing year is to expand the power grid to other regions and neighbourhoods, especially outlying neighbourhoods of cities and towns, but also to reduce losses caused by theft, although she did not disclose the full amounts of these losses.
“There are records of theft of electricity across the province and fighting such unlawful behaviour is for us another priority. We are therefore working hand in glove with other government institutions as well as the communities,” she declared.
By November 2021, EDM in Manica had reached a total of 154,850 clients connected to the national power grid.
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