Mozambique’s Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, António Saíde, said in Cape Town, South Africa, on Wednesday, that Mozambique has potential natural resources for energy production, which can contribute to industrialisation and clean energy supply in the context of energy transition in the country, the region and the world.
At the African Green Energy Summit, in a question and answer panel on the role of Mozambican natural resources in a context of energy transition, António Saíde mentioned renewable energy sources totalling 23 terawatts, including solar, hydro, wind and biomass, in addition to natural gas reserves whose exploitation has served domestically and in the region.
“We have played our role as suppliers through power generation and supply projects in the region, transmission lines and gas infrastructure to South Africa and Zimbabwe. We are now building the Mozambique-Malawi line and preparing one with Zambia and we will continue to work to create synergies to ensure access [to energy] by our population and to continue to contribute to filling the energy deficit in the region and from a global perspective,” Saíde noted.
The deputy minister also revealed that Mozambique has a master plan for natural gas that gives priority to generating energy for domestic consumption and export.
“Mozambique does not think only about itself, but also about how to share its resources with the region and the world,” he said, noting that the start of production and export of LNG through the Coral Sul project in the Rovuma basin is expected soon.
The African Green Energy Summit took place on the sidelines of the 28th edition of the African Oil Week, bringing together over 2,000 participants from the energy, oil and gas sectors, and whose focus this year was the energy transition.
