Electricity has already been restored to some of the customers affected by Tropical Cyclone "Chido", which hit the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Zambézia and Niassa last weekend, leaving several electrical infrastructures damaged. The Mozambique Electricity Company (EDM) said in a statement that by the end of yesterday afternoon,...
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Cyclone chido: More than 100,000 families still without power in central and northern Portugal
Tropical Cyclone "CHIDO", which made itself felt in the provinces of Cabo Delgado and Nampula, and also impacted the provinces of Niassa and Zambézia, continues to cause damage to the electricity system, interrupting the electricity supply in several parts of those provinces. According to a note from the company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), at the moment around 110...
Cyclone Chido interrupts telephone communication, internet and electricity in Cabo Delgado
Telephone communication between Cabo Delgado province and other parts of Mozambique has been interrupted since dawn today due to the passage of severe cyclone Chido. The province is also without electricity. Images in our possession show several destroyed infrastructures in the city of Pemba. Streets are partially flooded. There is no drinking water. In...
Post-election crisis: EDM interrupts power supply in south zone due to demonstrations
This afternoon, the company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) interrupted the electricity supply in the southern part of the country due to protesters. In a statement, EDM says that a group of protesters went to the Ressano Garcia and Gigawatt Thermoelectric Power Plants, demanding a total halt to power production as part of the...
Nampula: Power from the national grid reaches the administrative headquarters of Muatua
The headquarters of the Muatua Administrative Post (PA), in the district of Mogovolas, Nampula province, has already been connected to the national electricity grid since October 4, 2024. This is a project financed by the Mozambican government for a total of 105 million Meticais, according to a statement from the company Eletricidade de Mocambique. With...
Mozambique formalizes agreement to sell energy to RAS
The commercial agreement to supply additional electricity to the Republic of South Africa (RSA) is being finalized, as a way of helping the neighbouring country to minimize the crisis it is facing, according to Noticias According to the publication, a team led by the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME), Carlos...
South Africa wants to tap into the energy expertise of the BRICS countries
"We are especially eager to learn from Russia's strategies for managing a vast telecommunications network and its progress in nuclear energy," said South African Deputy President Paul Mashatile at the BRICS New Development Bank session in Cape Town. The aim is to connect new production capacity to the grid, to unlock...
From today, Maputo, Gaza and Sofala with power restrictions
Some areas of Maputo, Gaza and Sofala provinces will suffer power supply restrictions today. The interruption will take place as part of corrective and preventive maintenance work on the electricity infrastructure, carried out by Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), the company said in a press release.
EDM loses more than seven billion to energy theft every year
Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) has lost more than seven billion meticais due to energy theft and related actions across the country, the institution's spokesman revealed today. In an interview with Rádio Moçambique, António Nhassengo said that these losses, derived from deviant actions, are a concern for EDM, as...
Mozambique and Malawi strengthen cooperation in the areas of oil and energy
The governments of Mozambique and Malawi strengthened cooperation ties in the areas of oil and energy today, Wednesday (14), with the signing of two instruments in Maputo by the ministers who oversee the area in the two countries, namely Carlos Zacarias and Ibrahim Matola, respectively. The instruments were signed as part of a visit by two...