Mozambique and Tanzania will establish a combined 400-megawatt electricity link. The investment should benefit both countries, said the chairman of the board of Electricidade de Moçambique on the sidelines of the visit of the President of Tanzania to the Maputo Thermoelectric Power Plant.

"We have been talking with Tanzania about establishing a transmission line that will connect the two countries, given the natural resources we have.

"The idea is to make an interconnection from Toa Re, in Tanzania, to Palma, in Mozambique," said Marcelino Gildo Alberto, president of the board of directors of Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM).

"We want to establish a 400-megawatt (mw) line. There is already a memorandum of understanding between the governments, and right now we are holding a memorandum of understanding between the companies of the two countries, EDM and TANESCO," Alberto clarified.

According to the source the project already has two million dollars for its execution and should benefit both nations, according to the president of EDM.

"Tanzanians will be able to export the energy here, just as we will be able to their country. Tanzania is connected to other countries like Uganda and Kenya and we will be able to connect with them through a power supply corridor," the PCA reiterated.