Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) revealed that in the first three months of this year it invested 200 million meticals (3.1 million dollars) to electrify the administrative posts of Calipo and Regone, in the districts of Mogovolas and Namarroi, in the provinces of Nampula and Zambézia, respectively.
In a statement, the organisation stressed that the activities were carried out as part of the ‘Energy for All’ project, implemented by EDM and the Energy Fund (FUNAE), with the aim of providing energy to Mozambicans by 2030. The initiative was defined in the National Electrification Strategy (ENE), approved by the Council of Ministers in 2018.
‘In the first quarter of 2025 alone, EDM exceeded its target, having made 90,000 new connections, compared to the 45,000 planned. Thousands of families now have access to energy at local level,’ he said.
In the document, the company described that since 2020, 73 administrative posts have been electrified, 56 through the national electricity grid and the remaining 17 through renewable sources.
Recently, the Ministry of Finance announced that in 2024, more than 560,000 new household electricity connections were made, reaching 60 per cent coverage of the population with access to energy, up from 53.4 per cent in 2023.
‘During the energy expansion process, 563,800 new household connections were established, of which 395,600 through the national electricity grid and 170,100 through renewable sources,’ the budget execution report detailed.
The document added that during the period under review, the first 40 kilometres ‘of the backbone of the 400 kilovolt (kV) high-voltage electricity transmission system were built, linking the country from north to south through the Temane, Maputo, Chimuara and Alto Molócue sections.’
For its part, the National Statistics Institute (INE) revealed that over the last five years, electricity production has seen continuous growth, rising from 18,700 Gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2019 to 19,700 GWh in 2023. The 5.3 per cent increase was driven by generation from renewable sources, with hydroelectric plants contributing 82.7 per cent of the total electricity generated in 2023.
