• The NCC will also enable the country to enhance the capacity of the grid to integrate more generation from renewable sources.
  • Increase of the potential of additional variable renewable energy the grid can integrate from 800 MW to 4,100 MW
• The NCC will strengthen Mozambique's role in the SAPP. EDM will be able to purchase necessary power or sell surpluses at market prices in the SAPP.
  • Power trade with neighbouring countries increases from 1,488,000 MWh to 1,607,000 MWh
• The NCC will finally promote the digital transformation of Mozambique’s electricity sector.
  • 719 kms of transmission line retrofitted with fibre optic (OPGW); Increase of total length of interconnected fibre optic links from currently 766 km in the Southern Grid only to a national interconnected total length of 4,202 km (including existing lengths in the other grids, new transmission line installations and other retrofitted OPGW line projects)

The project comprises:

• Construction of three new buildings and the rehabilitation:
  • Host the future NCC and the Backup Control Center in the greater Maputo area, as well as
  • Two regional Control Centres for the central and northern grid in Chibata and Nampula;
• Equipped with SCADA/EMS systems for automated monitoring and control of the Mozambican power grid
• Adaptation measures for various 70 substations to enable them to communicate automatically with the control centres. and 135 substations connected through modernised telecommunications infrastructure
• Increase of total length of interconnected fibre optic links from currently 766 km in the Southern Grid only to a national interconnected total length of 4,202 km (including existing lengths in the other grids, new transmission line installations and other retrofitted OPGW line projects)

Economic and social benefits:

• Reducing technical losses in Mozambique's transmission power grid from 5% to less than 4.5% saving of 36,265 MWh
• Reduction of average power outage duration in one year from currently 50 h per year to less than 42 h per year nationwide
• Support Mozambican government in achieving its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), with 4,660 t CO2e saved annually
• EDM will be able to sell an additional USD 3.7 million worth of electricity per year