World Bank PressRelease: Interconnector, linking Tete22 Feb 2022 17:51
This World Bank Press Release for the Mozambique-Malawi Interconnector
It shows the link to Tete and the issue of the signficant addition & diversification of power suply.
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'World Bank Approves $57 Million Equivalent in Support of Mozambique and Malawi Regional Energy Trade'
September 17, 2019
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'The line starts at Matambo substation in Tete Province, central Mozambique, and ends at Phombeya substation in Balaka District in southern Malawi. With these investments, Malawian households, businesses, and farmers will benefit from increased access to reliable electricity services, that are vital to improve the country’s productivity and competitiveness in the domestic and regional markets.'
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'“The project seeks to address Malawi’s sectoral challenges, including chronic electricity supply deficits and ensures security of supply as well as reliability and affordability of electricity through imports from Mozambique and, in the future, other SAPP members,” said Bella Bird, World Bank Country Director for Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It also reduces the potential for a power crisis based on droughts affecting the Shire River. It addresses the need for back-up in the form of diversified external sources of power. In addition to construction of a transmission line and related infrastructure, the project will support capacity building of the electricity utilities of both countries.'
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2019/09/17/world-bank-approves-57-million-equivalent-in-support-of-mozambique-and-malawi-regional-energy-trade
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In particular:
[1] 'The line starts at Matambo substation in Tete Province, central Mozambique, and ends at Phombeya substation in Balaka District in southern Malawi.
[2] '...address Malawi’s sectoral challenges, including chronic electricity supply deficits and ensures security of supply as well as reliability and affordability of electricity through imports from Mozambique'
[3] ' It also reduces the potential for a power crisis based on droughts affecting the Shire River.'
[4] 'It addresses the need for back-up in the form of diversified external sources of power.'
Where:
[1] This is power drawn out of Tete, where the only new project large enough & advanced to supply enough power to the Interconnector to meet Malawi needs is Ncondezi/ NCCL. Only other potential supply is from the Cahora Bassa Dam, whose power is already accounted for, and won't be reliable i.e. drought, storms
[2] Only reliable & affordable electricity comes from coal. What coal power in Tete? There is only one.
[3] If wanting to avoid the affect of drought, then the issue concerns both Malawi & Mozambican hydro supply. Only reliable source of electricity in this context is coal.
[4] To Diversify in the context of avoiding the impact of drought, while drawing power from Tete, can only mean Tete Coal-derived power and there is only one project in sight -- NCCL/
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