Africa-Press – Mozambique. The President of Namibia, Netumbo Nandi Ndaitwah, yesterday (19-05) expressed her interest in building a replica of the Maputo Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTM) to produce electricity for her country.
CTM is a combined cycle natural gas project, with a capacity to produce 106 MW of electricity.
Speaking this Monday after a visit to the CTM, Ndaitwah said that her country, and the whole southern region of Africa, has decided to embrace renewable and clean energy as a way to encourage economic development in the coming years.
“I would say that what I saw here is an investment in energy. I really want to see it in Namibia. We are also making efforts. We decided to focus on mixed energy, which means that we cannot really push conventional energy,” she said.
“The investment that we saw here in Mozambique, I can is an investment on behalf of the SADC [Southern African Development Community]. And as one of the leaders of SADC, I can speak on behalf of my colleagues who would like to see more of this type of investment expanded in our region,” she said.
Ndaitwah remarked that the African continent was a producer of uranium, which is currently being exported to other countries outside the continent.
“Africa is a producer of uranium, which is currently being exported to other continents so that they can increase their energy production. Namibia is one of these countries. So, we cannot stay away. Otherwise, we are getting involved in the discussion so that we can increase the energy potential of SADC,” she said, noting that Namibia’s greatest interest in cooperation with Mozambique was in the energy sector and reiterating that yesterday morning, she and the President of the Republic, Daniel Chapo, had both agreed to improve energy cooperation.
“You should know that as two presidents, we agree that we have to do more in terms of cooperation. Politically, we are doing an exceptional job.”
Netumbo Nandi Ndaitwah reiterated that a Mutual Cooperation Commission should be urgently established to strengthen relations in the development sectors, including energy, mining, agriculture and tourism.
“The objective is to grow our economies to create jobs for our young people to be employed,” she said, highlighting the need to produce enough energy for the entire SADC region.
“Governments,” she added, “can not do this alone, and that is why we are calling on our private sector to come together and work in partnership.”
Mozambique’s Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Estevão Pale, said in turn that it was important to strengthen economic cooperation, especially in the energy sector, which, according to him, had not yet been cemented.
“The idea is to strengthen economic cooperation with Namibia, which has not been very well developed, but at this time, our two presidents have decided that they should strengthen this cooperation in various areas, including energy,” Pale said.
With a daily use of 15,000 gigajoules of natural gas for the generation of electricity, CTM has a 52% yield from its combined cycle of internal production. Budgeted at around 8.3 billion meticais, the plant is one of the first in the southern region of Africa.
Remarks to the Press by H.E. Dr. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on the Occasion of the Working Visit to the Republic of Mozambique
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