Zinhane Administrative Post Electrified
Maputo, 1 Feb (AIM) – The publicly owned Mozambique electricity company, EDM, has announced that on Tuesday it connected the Zinhane administrative post, in Chigubo district, in the southern province of Gaza, to the national electricity grid.
This is the first administrative post to be electrified this year and brings to 48 the number of administrative posts electrified since 2020, under EDM’s project to electrify the headquarters of every administrative post in the country.
Of the 48 administrative posts in Gaza, Zinhane is the 40th to be electrified.
EDM’s target is to ensure the electrification of all 135 administrative posts in the country by 2024.
The expansion of the grid to Zinhane was financed by the Mozambican state budget and cost 65 million meticais (slightly more than a million US dollars, at the current exchange rate). The work consisted of building 24 kilometres of medium voltage 33kV transmission line from the Machaila crossroads, in Mapai district, to Zinhane.
Five kilometres of low voltage transmission lines were also built, two 100 kVA transformers were installed, as were 60 lampposts for public lighting.
In this first phase, 400 new clients in Zinhane are expected to be connected to the EDM grid.
In its release announcing the electrification of Zinhane, EDM said that it will continue to mobilise resources so that a further ten million Mozambicans may have access to electricity by 2024.
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