Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) is currently mobilizing about one billion US dollars to universalize access to electricity by 2030.
The work was made known last week by the president of the Board of Directors of the public company, adding that for the first phase, already underway, 139 million US dollars have been secured from the World Bank, the European Union, and the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, traditional partners in the sector. The first phase will connect 350 thousand installations in various parts of the country.
Marcelino Gildo Alberto considered the Energy for All Program “ProEnergia”, the instrument that will lead the country towards the goal of universal access, ambitious considering the time remaining until 2030 and the territorial extension yet to be covered.
The official did not specify the course of the negotiation process with development partners for the allocation of the amount needed for the country’s overall electrification, but expressed confidence in the success of the program, which belongs to the Government as a whole.
Although EDM is mobilizing one billion US dollars, the amount is believed to be disbursed in phases as it moves forward on the ground, given the impossibility of covering the country at once.
In fact, EDM’s business plan for the 2020/24 period, presented in October last year, clarifies that the company must simultaneously advance on several fronts and not only on the expansion of distribution networks.
It also needs to invest in power generation, transmission and transformation.
“ProEnergia” is an initiative launched in November 2019 by the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi and is aligned with the Five-Year Plan 2020/24 and the Sustainable Development Goals, which recommend universalizing access to electricity by 2030.
For this year, EDM has hired five contractors who are already on the ground working to connect 350,000 new customers to the national electricity grid by December.
