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Mozambique set to double the number of people with access to electricity by 2024
5:23 CAT | 21 Dec 2020
Photo courtesy: Gabinete do Secretário de Estado do Niassa
- Country needs US$6 billion to achieve its energy for all target
Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi said on Friday that a further ten million consumers will have access to electricity in the country in the next four years, another step towards universal access to this resource.
“We will ensure that another ten million Mozambicans have access to electricity in the next four years,” President Nyusi said in Lichinga district, Niassa province, in northern Mozambique.
Nyusi explained that only 34% of the approximately 30 million Mozambicans have access to electricity, and that that figure is expected to rise to 64% by 2024. “At that rate, we will be in a position to maintain the necessary progress within the national Energy for All programme,” the Mozambican president declared.
Filipe Nyusi advocated the use of alternative sources of energy in order to consolidate more widespread access to electricity, pointing out that the country must invest in reducing dependence on energy generated by the Cahora Bassa Hydroelectric Plant (HCB).
In order to achieve this goal, it is important for the country to capitalize on its renewable energy potential, he added.
The head of state stressed the importance of ensuring the supply of electricity to families, but also to the economic and industrial sector, as a way of boosting social development.
Speaking during the inauguration of the electrification project for the administrative post in Meponda, 70 kilometres from Lichinga, the capital of Niassa province, and more than 2,000 kilometres from Maputo, Filipe Nyusi stressed that electricity is essential for the social and economic development of the country.
Country needs US$6 billion to achieve its energy for all target
President of Mozambique Electricity (EDM) Marcelino Gildo said that the country needs US$6 billion (€5 billion) to achieve access to electricity for all Mozambicans by 2030, saying the goal was “a major challenge”.
Universal access to electricity is one of the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. “It is a big challenge, but we believe we will meet it,” Gildo told journalists on the sidelines of the inauguration of the Meponda electrification project.
As part of efforts to promote universal access to electricity, EDM has already mobilized $250 million (€204 million) for electrification programmes in 2021 and 2022, and is now committed to sourcing one billion dollars (€817 million) for the subsequent phase.
Gildo pointed out that all 154 district headquarters and 135 of the 416 administrative posts in the country already have access to electricity.
Source: Lusa
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