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Mozambique’s Electridade de Moçambique (EDM) plans to increase power exports to other Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries including Zambia.
According to Mozambican news agency, EDM chairman Marcelino Gildo Alberto said that power exports to the region currently represent 22 percent of EDM’s annual revenues.
“The southern African region is in crisis. South Africa is short of power, Zimbabwe the same, Zambia too, and recently we learned that Tanzania is starting to have problems,” Alberto said.
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He said Mozambique was in an advantaged position to sell power to the regional market, because the country has surplus energy.
Zimbabwe and Zambia’s electricity crises are partly attributable to falling water levels at Lake Kariba.
Last year, the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) ordered Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) and ZESCO, Zimbabwe and Zambia’s power utilities respectively, to reduce electricity generation last year.
Zimbabwe operates the Kariba South Bank Power Station, which has an installed capacity of 1,050 megawatts (MW), while Zambia operates the Kariba North Bank Power Station which has an installed capacity of 1 080MW.
On January 4, 2023, Zambia’s State-owned power utility ZESCO Limited increased hours of load shedding to 12 hours daily due to low water levels in the dam.
ZESA was also forced to reduce power generation at Kariba South Power Station towards the end of 2022 due to dwindling water levels, and as
of January 5, 2023, the power plant was generating a meagre 260MW.
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