US$300 Million Raised for Second Phase of Mozambique’s Energy Access Programme

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  • Mozambiqueโ€™s publicly owned electricity company, EDM, has mobilised about 300 million US dollars for implementation of the second phase of the programme โ€œEnergy for Allโ€ (also known as โ€œProEnergiaโ€), which envisages adding to the national grid more than 320,000 new connections a year between now and 2024.

According to a report in Wednesdayโ€™s issue of the Maputo daily โ€œNoticasโ€, the funds are contributions from the World Bank and from the Norwegian and Swiss governments.

According to EDM board member, Joaquim Ou-chim, the second phase of โ€œProEnergiaโ€ will shortly be launched. โ€œRight now, procurement is under way, through which we intend to select the contractor, and find a company that will be responsible for guaranteeing the supply of electrical equipmentโ€, he said.

Ou-chim added that EDM expects to start the work as soon as the selection has been concluded. New consumers will be connected to the national grid continually, in order to meet the goal of guaranteeing universal access to electricity by 2030.

The first phase of ProEnergia will end within the next three months, and has allowed the connection of many households living near the grid. โ€œIn this second phaseโ€, said Ou-Chim, โ€œwe shall step up connections, but also focus on expanding the gridโ€.

In the first phase of ProEnergia, about 307,000 households benefitted from access to electricity within the grid, and 3,000 households from isolated systems outside the grid. To date, about 39 per cent of the population has access to electricity from the EDM grid.

Author: Bryan Groenendaal

Source: Agencia de Informacao deย Mocambique (AIM)

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