Africa-Press – Eswatini. Despite the lack of sufficient electricity to meet local demand, EEC continues to find alternative sources by hook or crook.
Mozambique’s Electricity Company (EDM) has signed a new contract to supply power to the Kingdom of Eswatini, indicated an official statement issued on Monday by EDM.
The contract has a duration of 17 months and provides for EDM to supply 20 megawatts of power, a quantity that could be revised depending on the needs of Eswatini Electricity Company (EEC).
“The bilateral relationship between EDM and EEC is over a decade old, with Mozambique and South Africa being the main suppliers of energy that that country imports to meet over 70 percent of its domestic consumption needs,” reads a notice announcing the agreement.
EEC Marketing and Corporate Communications Manager Khaya Mavuso said; “this is part of EEC’s efforts to source alternative power supply options to meet the country’s base load demand.”
The meeting at which the agreement was signed also served to analyse future projects between the two companies, particularly the Temane Thermal Power Plant, which was being built in southern Mozambique.
“The Temane Thermal Power Plant project includes a transmission line between Vilanculos [Inhambane province] and Maputo, which will interconnect to the Motraco system, the same one that makes the interconnection between Mozambique and the Eswatini Kingdom,” said Chairman of EDM, Marcelino Alberto.
In December, Globeleq Company, the main shareholder of the Temane Thermal Power Plant announced it had secured full funding for the project, worth US$652 million (576.4 million euros), and expected to start producing electricity in 2024.
EEC is a power utility, which was formed in 1963 to provide electricity to the Swati nation by sourcing or generating power using the least cost sources of energy.
The company currently operates in a liberalised market through the Electricity Act of 2007 and the Energy Regulatory Act of 2007. EEC imports 80 per cent of the Electricity demand from Southern Africa countries through bilateral agreements also from the Day Ahead Market (DAM) in the Southern Africa Power Pool (SAPP).
Locally, the company buys five per cent from one local six Independent Power Producers (IPP’s) Ubombo Sugar Limited and generates the other 15 per cent from its internal power stations.
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