Maputo-Temane power line: Commercial operation rescheduled for late next year - report
Mozambique: President wants to bring electricity to 10 million by 2024
8:35 CAT | 02 Jun 2021
File photo: O País
Mozambique’s president, Filipe Nyusi, on Monday reaffirmed the goal of bringing electricity to the homes of 10 million Mozambicans by the end of 2024.
“Our governance aims that more than 10 million Mozambicans have access to electric light for the first time in their homes by 2024,” he said, considering energy as the key to the country’s development.
“Our ambitious challenge is to electrify all the administrative posts without access to electricity by the end of my term of office, through the national grid and the installation of autonomous systems powered by renewable sources,” he said.
He was speaking during the signing of agreements for the launch of gas and power projects in Temane, south of the country. The Temane Combined Cycle Thermal Power Plant will be the biggest power plant built in Mozambique since independence, an investment of $1 billion (€900 million), and will feed the Temane-Maputo high voltage line, another project launched on Monday.
The government was represented by Eletricidade de Moçambique (EDM) and Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH), alongside South African oil company Sasol and energy and project development company Globeleq.
The South African state oil company announced earlier this year that it would boost its investment in the region’s natural gas deposits.
The power plant will be fed by the same underground reserves from which a light oil and cooking gas processing unit will also be built.
The two infrastructures – thermal power plant and power line – will ensure the availability of electricity as part of the government’s Energy for All initiative, which aims to provide universal access to energy for all Mozambicans by 2030.
The Temane Thermal Power Plant will have a capacity of 450 megawatts.
“Today, we witness the exceptional start of a vision that aims to provide energy for all Mozambicans: this is a transformational project for the country, which will unite Mozambique from North to South,” the World Bank representative in Mozambique, Idah Pswarayi-Riddihough, said during the ceremony.
The World Bank is one of the funding partners of the projects, along with the USA, Norway, African Development Bank (ADB), Islamic Bank and the OPEC Fund for International Development – Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Source: Lusa
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