Countries affiliated with the Southern Africa Power Pool (SAPP), a Southern African Development Community (SADC)-wide electricity coordination center, are concerned about a seven-gigawatt electricity deficit.

The information was advanced this Tuesday by the director of operations of Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), Luís Ganje, during the 59th General Meeting of SAPP, which runs in Maputo until this Thursday.

Ganje quoted by "Carta" explained that in the SADC region there are still three countries, including Malawi, which are not connected to SAPP, and Mozambique is positioned as an exporter, since it has a surplus of energy and can respond in the market.

"The seven Gigawatts is mainly South Africa's shortfall, hence it may rely on SAPP to supply its domestic needs.

However, neighboring countries have the opportunity to be able to make investments in the area of generation to meet the existing demand in South Africa," the source said.

According to the source, this session will discuss issues that should be taken to the SAPP executive and, afterwards, to the SADC meeting that will take place later this year.

It should be noted that the SAPP was created with the objective of supplying electricity needs, allowing countries with an energy surplus to sell to countries with a deficit and postpone the need for investment in generation projects,