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Mozambique: EDM to review transmission integration study
Aug 10, 2020
Nigeria Siemens

Energy developer Ncondezi Energy announced that it has submitted a power transmission integration study to Electricidad de Moçambique (EDM) for its integrated 300MW coal-fired power project and coal mine in Tete Province.

According to a company statement, the study evaluated a number of transmission connection options for the project taking into account current and planned changes to the network since the last study was completed with EDM.

The study will be used by EDM to provide approval on the project transmission option to connect into the Mozambique grid.

The company has assured that the power plant will be designed to be equipped with state-of-the-art emissions controls technologies that will reduce local air pollutants, minimising the plant’s impact on the environment and ensuring its compliance with the most stringent emission standards.

Ncondezi Energy’s CEO, Hanno Pengilly, said: “It’s a fantastic step forward that we have submitted the final draft of the transmission integration study to EDM for review.”

Following the updated tariff proposal in March 2020, this report was required and has been updated with proprietary information from EDM, explained Pengilly.

“The results look encouraging and have identified a number of optimisations, which have the potential to improve transmission line cost, strengthen the grid and facilitate future transmission expansion plans,” said Pengilly.

He added: “Tariff negotiations are continuing in parallel and are progressing positively. The team continues to work tirelessly to reach our goals and we look forward to providing further updates in due course.”
Transmission integration to close infrastructure gap

According to the World Bank, only 30% of the Mozambican population had access to energy in 2017.

In efforts to improves energy access and close the infrastructure gap, in October 2019 the company announced its first investment in an off-grid solar battery project.

Ncondezi Energy has since then secured the right to fund a $5.5 million commercial and industrial (C&I) project development pipeline in Mozambique through a relationship agreement with a C&I developer.

The move into the C&I solar and battery storage sector offers a significant opportunity for the company to complement the existing large-scale baseload power project and access near-term low-risk annuity income streams which have significant growth potential.

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Things ramping up here, big time!!

https://southerntimesafrica.com/site/news/mozambique-re-energises-southern-africa

Harare - For nearly a decade, SADC countries have been in the throes of an electricity crisis due to several factors, including El Niño-induced droughts that depleted water levels in the Zambezi River – a major hydroelectric power source – that have left some countries in the lurch energy-wise.

Growing electricity demand has seen several SADC states in recent years resorting to load shedding that lasts up to 18 hours a day for a period in the recent past.

However, the situation has been improving and the Southern Africa Power Pool (SAPP) says this is thanks to Mozambique’s vast electricity generation capacity.

SAPP says while load-shedding has been significantly minimised across the region, nothing much has changed in terms of actual electricity output.

“Yes, most countries in the region have seen a change in terms of their electricity supply systems, (but) that doesn’t mean countries are now managing to meet their installed power generation capacities.

“The situation has been made better by Mozambique, as it is the only country that is currently meeting its installed power generation capacity and producing surplus to trade with other countries in the region,” SAPP co-ordination centre manager, Engineer Stephen Dihwa says.

Mozambique has installed generation capacity in the region of 2,827MW, but with a local access rate in the region of 29 percent, the country finds that it cannot presently absorb all that it is producing and this allows the country to make a tidy dollar by selling it to consumers outside its borders.

And on top of installed coal and hydro capacity, Mozambique is gearing for an energy boom in solar and in gas.

Gas in particular appears to be where Mozambique will position itself as veritable energy giant, and it is in the process of developing a liquefied natural gas project at a cost of more than US$20 billion, which has been touted as Africa’s biggest deal ever.

While the region waits for the gas development, Mozambique is already a major energy player in Southern Africa because of its hydro output.

“Most hydro power plants in Southern Africa where affected by drought, and now they are failing to meet the power supply demand. But that can’t be said in Mozambique’s case.

“Cahora Bassa Dam is one of the hydro power suppliers that was never affected by drought and it is doing very well,” Eng Dihwa explains.

“Water levels at Kariba Dam (which like Cahora Bassa is on the Zambezi Rover) are still low. During the last rain season there was a notable rise in the water levels, but it wasn’t enough for the Zambezi River Authority to change the water allocation for hydro power generation.

“Last year the Zambezi River Authority reduced water allocation for hydro power generation because water levels at Kariba Dam were becoming low and low due to drought.”

Kariba Dam is a major power source for Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Continued:

Overlying this is a need for cleaner air. The Paris Accord on climate change has brought the world together in a pledge for lower emissions, so where fossil fuel is used, we must use the latest clean technology.

In my view, ‘climate deniers’ are those who pretend we can impose our will on others in the name of global warming, as though all 193 member states of the UN will magically come to heel. There is no room in 2020 for playing the ‘colonial overlord’ and it may even push some away from the goal of a cleaner planet. And what happens if a government decide to use oil, coal or gas? Do we go to war, impose sanctions, expel them from the General Assembly?

So, how about giving them the technology to burn it cleanly?

I am a scientist and have spent my working life researching how to get rid of toxic byproducts when using different types of fuel. At the clean-coal facility at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, we have done just that. We remove much of the dirt from the coal before it even enters the furnace, redesigning ovens to produce more heat and less fumes, and capturing what’s left, then harvesting elements for sale as byproducts.

I have overseen masters and doctoral degrees for academics from across Africa who have the same dream, and we liaise with like-minded schools in the US, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia.

The engineers and scientists we work with around the world are not tub-thumpers or activists. They are scholars doing peer-reviewed work on clean coal. Think of the smoky old cars we had in the 50s, and the early jet engines. Fast forward to unleaded fuel and energy-efficient planes: neither is anywhere near as clean as the new way of using coal.

Across Africa, firewood is still the most common source of energy for warmth and cooking, and it comes at a terrible cost to nature. By this I do not mean just the loss of trees, but habitats destroyed for everything from insects to elephants. West Africa has cut down an estimated 90 per cent of its forest. According to the Worldwide Fund for Nature, Kenya and Tanzania have done the same with their coastal forests. Logging also has a huge effect on weather patterns and the environment.

Why does this continue? A major contributor is the lack of electricity. If we want to save our forest then the only way in Africa is by connecting homes to mains electricity. That means for those countries that continue to use fossil fuel and especially coal, we must put money and research into a clean burn.

In northern Mozambique, the world’s biggest new gas field is being opened up with a jump in jobs and wealth. Do we tell them to stop? And would the government in Maputo listen? Mozambique has one of the world’s largest coal mines at Moatize, earning millions in foreign exchange. Should we bomb it? Angola and Nigeria earn almost all their income from oil. Will they shut the wells? Will Saudi or Venezuela?

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"Clean coal: the commonsense answer to Africa’s energy crisis"

https://conservativewoman.co.uk/clean-coal-the-commonsense-answer-to-africas-energy-crisis/

A CENTURY from now, maybe sooner, it’s unlikely we’ll be using coal to make electricity. Or not much of it.

Wind and solar are getting cheaper and they are easier to set up than building a power station that runs on heat, be it from coal, wood, rubbish or anything else.

The problem is that we’re not there yet. Solar doesn’t work at night, the output slips in cloudy weather, and turbines stand idle when the wind doesn’t blow. Even hydro has its limits when rainfall is low and dams don’t fill high enough to drive the turbines. Batteries are getting better at storing energy, but we need baseload power – and lots of it – to run a city such as Chicago or Cape Town.

So what should we do in the meantime?

Coal is being used at record levels across Africa, and from Poland to Bangladesh, and it’s unconscionable to pump tons of smoke into the air when we have the technology to limit and contain these emissions.

But when activists talk about stopping coal now, or chant ‘Leave it in the ground,’ they are naïve. Most of these arguments are made by people in Europe, Canada or the US who have no experience of life without electricity. Little wonder they don’t understand the hardship of more than a billion people around the world who live permanently without power.

In London the Global Warming Policy Foundation recently published a paper on the links between a lack of electricity and the rise of militia across Africa.

It demonstrated that without industrial levels of current, as used in the developed world, it is impossible to set up mines and factories and difficult to run a modern school or hospital, and that this is a key reason for Africa’s chronic unemployment problem. Wherever you look at where extremist groups are taking hold or criminal gangs are rife, there are also huge numbers of young people without jobs. And until we solve that problem, there is no chance of winning the war on terror.

The bottom line is that more than 600million Africans live without electricity. Countries such as South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe all get their power from coal. Two years ago Egypt announced it was building the world’s biggest clean-coal generator on the coast, and Tanzania has built a smaller one near the border with Mozambique. Kenya has been off-and-on with political wrangles over a similar project not far from the coastal port of Lamu. The latter met resistance from the public and, in a democracy, the government in Nairobi must take on board their concerns. But it will be a sovereign decision for the people of Kenya and no one else. Likewise, wind, solar, coal or gas projects elsewhere in the world must be sovereign decisions for those countries too.

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If triangulate between these three, gives a picture of serious moves taking place i.e. project moving to a conclusion:

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“A lot of different workstreams that we are working on. We are working very closely with Government, as well as EDM, their state power utility, and our strategic partners, to progress a number of these workstreams. A lot of stuff has followed our submission of the power tariff at the end of March. And following that announcement, a number of peripheral studies had been initiated, one of which was the transmission integration study update, which was, which we provided on update on yesterday. That was really just, reassessing our integration plans. A lot of has changed in Mozambique, since our last plans were done. It was very important that things were up-to-date. Particularly, given that a lot of transmission plans and programmes have been, are being successfully implemented, in Mozambique, which we need to take into account [then something about another connector/ power line, reaching financial close] ‘right around where our project is located.”

“And, in addition to that, other power plants that were looking to be developed at the time we last did the study, have fallen away. So, it has all impacted how we integrate into the grid, and very, important that we work closely with EDM, to gain access to proprietary information that they have, to complete that study.”

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/925908/ncondezi-energy-ceo-updates-as-it-submits-new-transmission-integration-study-925908.html

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"#Mozambique takes another step towards expanding the transmission network into #Malawi #NCCL's recently completed transmission study accounts for these exciting developments ensuring an optimal supply strategy into the grid"

https://twitter.com/Ncondezi_Energy/status/1291659356841431040

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"Maputo — The Mozambican government has launched an international public tender to select the contractor who will build the 400 kV electricity transmission line linking Mozambique and Malawi."

https://allafrica.com/stories/202008030091.html

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NCCL telling us a) their study underpins this tendering process, and that (if we look at the interview above), b) infrastructure is either being arranged the Noncdezi Power Project or that Noncdezi Power Project just happens to be where all the infrastructure is (I think it is clearly the former of these).

Things now moving in concrete terms.

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