Mozambique is making significant strides in rural electrification, with the "Energy for All" project, a government initiative that aims to electrify 75 administrative posts by the end of 2024. This task, essential to the country's socio-economic development, requires an investment of 140 million dollars.
The state-owned company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) will receive 92 million of this total, while the remaining 48 million will go to the Energy Fund (FUNAE). The restructuring of the project, begun in 2020, identified the need to electrify 135 administrative post headquarters that still lack electricity.
Currently, 341 administrative posts are already connected to the national power grid, out of a total of 416. The government's target is for 64% of the Mozambican population to have access to national grid electricity by the end of the current five-year term, with the remainder to be covered in the 2025/2030 period.
The project's success is clear: from 2020 to the end of 2023, 60 administrative posts were connected to the national grid. During this period, the government invested 78 million dollars in the project, 45 million for EDM and 31 million for FUNAE.
In 2024, the project faces the challenge of making 570 thousand new electricity connections across the country, divided between EDM (320) and FUNAE (250). In 2023, 536 thousand new connections were made, raising the total number of households with access to national grid electricity to 3.2 million.
This project not only significantly improves quality of life in rural areas, by providing access to basic services such as education, health and communication, but also drives economic development by encouraging economic activity in these regions.
