The state-owned electricity company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) is running a campaign to exchange old meters that have expired, with a view to improving service provision and modernizing customer service. According to EDM's Director of Revenue Protection and Loss Control, Edson Augusto Loforte, in this first phase, the campaign, which...
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Mozambique Electricity spends more than 20 M$ annually on public lighting
The public company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) is complaining about the high costs of public lighting throughout the country, which amount to 20 million dollars a year, a supply that has no purchase subsidy. Lighting covers cities, large urban centers, towns and neighbourhoods in all municipal territories and beyond, with...
Government and partner sign agreement to implement Mphanda Nkuwa project
The Government, represented by the Mphanda Nkuwa Hydroelectric Project Implementation Office (GMNK), Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), and the Strategic Partner signed two Partnership Agreements for the Implementation of the Mphanda Nkuwa Hydroelectric Project in Maputo today, formalizing the partner's entry into the project. This is the beginning of...
EDM signs a cooperation agreement with the National Energy Transportation Network
Electricidade de Moçambique, E.P. (EDM) signed a Cooperation Protocol with the National Energy Transmission Network (RNT - EP) yesterday in Luanda, as part of Angola's integration into the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP). According to the statement released to MZNews, the cooperation instrument will allow, among other things, the sharing of...
Floods: Some 20,000 families were left without power in greater Maputo
The company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) estimates that 18,500 consumers have been left without electricity, due to the floods that have severely hit the southern part of the country, also affecting power infrastructures. EDM spokesman Luís Amado explained to "Carta" that these consumers were affected following the interruption of three...
Vandalization of infrastructure by terrorists has left 30,000 people without power in Cabo Delgado
Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) revealed Tuesday that at least 30,000 people have been without power due to the vandalisation of transformers over the last three years by rebels in Cabo Delgado, in the north of the country. Armed groups have vandalized at least 25 transformers in Cabo Delgado, said Gildo Marques, director for the service area...
EDM mobilizes financing for solar photovoltaic plants
The state-owned company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) will develop four small-scale solar photovoltaic plants with battery storage in the country, estimating a total power production of 50 Megawatts (MW). For this purpose, EDM signed last Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium, a Cooperation Agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a...
31 million meticals invested in the expansion of the electricity grid in Gaza
Mozambique's electricity company, EDM (Electricidade de Moçambique) said Tuesday it had invested 31 million meticals in expanding the electricity grid to the administrative post of Messano, in Gaza province. According to a note from EDM, cited by Lusa, the Messano electrification project began in September and was completed in the last week of...
Sweden provides $5 million to electrify Vilanculos district
The Swedish government has provided five million dollars to Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) for power expansion in Vilanculos district, in the southern province of Inhambane
EDM strengthens interconnection with countries in the region
The strengthening and expansion of the transmission system and interconnection with neighboring countries is one of the priorities of the public company Electricidade de Moçambique