The National Director of Hydrocarbons and Fuels at the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME) revealed today in Maputo that only three million Mozambicans (9.6%) use cooking gas, out of a total of 6% of the population that uses clean energy.

Moisés Paulino João explained that 92% of the population still uses biomass energy (firewood and coal) and 2% uses liquid fuel (kerosene).

Speaking at a press briefing, he acknowledged that it was still a challenge to get cooking gas to the majority of the population. In this sense, he recalled that one of the government's strategies is to implement, from 2022, a program to massify the use of cooking gas.

"That's why the government went down the road of massifying the use of its own gas. Since Mozambique produces its own gas, there's no reason for us not to use it," he said.

Moisés Paulino João was speaking during a press briefing on the first seminar in Southern Africa on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), to be held on April 17 and 18 in Maputo, which aims to promote LPG as a cooking energy in the African region.