Maputo, 28 Aug (AIM) – The chairperson of Mozambique’s publicly-owned electricity company, EDM, Joaquim Ou-Chim, claims that the company is willing to open up space for private suppliers.
According to Ou-Chim, who was speaking, on Tuesday, during the 59th edition of the Maputo International Trade Fair (Facim-2024), at the same time that the company is marking 47 years of operations, it is open to private suppliers “but we have to adapt and be more competitive.”
“I think we’re in a better position to continue leading the market”, he said, during a seminar aimed at reflecting on the impact of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the energy sector, at Facim-2024.
For his turn, the National Director of Electrification Strategies, António Nhassengo, said that the company has been investing in PPPs since 2011, after experiencing a major shortfall in the production, transport and supply of energy in the country and the region.
He cited several PPP projects that have involved EDM. “The company has invested 800 million dollars in these projects since 2011. With these projects, as well as guaranteeing domestic supply, the company has had surpluses that are exported for sale in different countries in the southern region”, he said.
This is at best disingenuous, since the largest producer and exporter of electricity is not EDM, but a completely separate public company, Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), which operates the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river, in Tete province.
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