Watch: Nyusi inaugurates transmission line to Derre

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Watch: Nyusi inaugurates transmission line to Derre

11:35 CAT | 07 Apr 2018

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Friday inaugurated an electricity transmission line carry power from the town Morrumbala to Derre district, in he central province of Zambezia, a distance of 102 kilometres.

86 kilometres of the line are medium voltage, at 33 kva. The final 16 kilometres are low voltage, and supply the Derre district capital, where 920 consumers (both residential and industrial) are now connected to the national electricity grid. There are also 11 transformer posts, and 90 street lamps for public lighting.

The electrification of Derre cost 163 million meticais (about 2.7 million dollars), and the contractor was the company Mozambique Power Industries. Previously Derre depended on a diesel-fired generator for its power supply.

Interviewed by AIM, the Derre district administrator, Santiago Marques said local residents are pleased that they are now receiving power 24 hours a day from the national grid. “Today we can obtain fresh produce at any time of day, which wasn’t possible in the recent past”, he said.

There are now only two districts in Zambezia – Luabo and Mocubela – which are not electrified. A third, Milange, draws its power not from the Mozambican grid, but from neighbouring Malawi.