Maputo (MOZTIMES) – Supporters of fugitive presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane have halted the generation of electricity in the Ressano Garcia and Gigawatt power stations.
According to a press release issued on Saturday by the publicly-owned electricity company, EDM, the stoppages have reduced by 30% EDM’s capacity to supply power to southern Mozambique.
The two power stations generate a total of 250 megawatts. Of this amount, 150 megawatts supplies southern Mozambique (Maputo, Gaza and Inhambane provinces and Maputo city), and the rest is exported to neighbouring countries. The power stations use Mozambican natural gas, extracted by the South African petrochemical giant Sasol, from the Pande and Temane fields in Inhambane province.
EDM says this situation has forced it to restrict power supplies to southern Mozambique “in a programmed and rotating manner, seeking to minimise the impact of the paralysis of those power stations on the consumers”.
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