Maputo, 1 Jul (AIM) – Mozambique’s publicly owned electricity company, EDM, on Monday announced that it has extended the national electricity grid to the Imala and Iuluti administrative posts, in the northern province of Nampula.
This brings the number of administrative posts in Nampula electrified to 55, out of the existing 70 posts. EDM is working to provide electricity to all administrative posts, as part of the government’s drive to ensure that all Mozambican citizens have access to electric power by 2030.
Imala, in Muecate district, was connected to the grid on Friday, 28 June. This work consisted of building 35 kilometres of medium voltage transmission line from Muecate town to Imala.
Five transformers, and 150 lampposts for public lighting were also installed.
Iuluti was electrified on Saturday, with the construction of 45 kilometres of medium voltage transmission line from the Mogovolas district capital, and a network of ten kilometres of low voltage line. Here too 150 lampposts were installed, and eight transformers.
An EDM statement said these two electrification projects were financed by the governments of Mozambique and Spain. For Imala, 75 million meticais (about 1.2 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate) were investes, and for Iuluti, 90 million meticais. In an initial phase, this guarantees electricity connections to 2,000 new consumers in the two administrative posts.
EDM pledges that it will continue “with determination to provide good quality electricity and to guarantee universal access by 2030, in order to empower the industrialization of the country, and ensure conditions for the welfare of all Mozambicans”.
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