Maputo, 26 Dec (AIM) – The Mozambican publicly owned electricity company, EDM, on Friday connected the Mandie administrative post, in Guro district, in the central province of Manica, to the national electricity grid.
According to an EDM release, extending the grid to Mandie cost 62 million meticais (about 970,000 US dollars, at the current exchange rate). The work involved building 25 kilometres of medium voltage transmission line from Songo, in Tete province.
100 lamposts were installed for public lighting and three transformer posts. Initially, these improvements mean that 500 consumers in Mandie can be linked to the national grid.
EDM says that, with the electrification of Mandie, the number of administrative posts in Manica linked to the grid has risen to 26. There remain eight administrative posts in the province still to be electrified.
But EDM warns that the target of electrifying all administrative posts in the country is being compromised by acts of vandalism targeting electricity infrastructures.
It called for “community vigilance” and the denunciation of all cases of vandalism of electrical equipment.
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