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Electricity IV Project
Mozambique
Borrower | Mozambique |
Financing Type | Public Sector |
Instrument | Project Loan |
Focus Area | Energy |
Approved | 13.06.2006 |
Signed | 07.09.2006 |
Status | Completed |
Loan Administrator | AFDB |
Executing Agency | Electricidade do Mozambique (EDM) |
Co-financiers | AFDF, Government |
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 10.40 |
Total Project Cost (US$m) | 55.95 |
The project will carry out activities in the Sofala and Manica Provinces in central Mozambique, where only an estimated 5.3% of the region’s 2.9 million inhabitants has access to electricity. Works will comprise:
- construction/rehabilitation of substations;
- installation of transmission lines; 593 km distribution network;
- connecting some 38,000 households to the grid; and
- installation of around 10,000 pre-payment energy meters.