{"id":31281,"date":"2022-12-21T15:39:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T15:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year"},"modified":"2022-12-21T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T15:45:17","slug":"power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>State-owned company Eletricidade de Moc\u0327ambique (EDM) lost around five billion meticais ( 74 million euros) this year to the theft of electricity within the country, the chairman of the board of directors announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have registered, at alarming levels, the growing rate of energy theft, both by domestic customers and by large customers,\u201d Marcelino Gildo said during an award ceremony for journalists in a competition promoted by the company.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, EDM has so far lost around 41 million meticais (\u20ac605,000) as a result of 265 cases of vandalism of electrical infrastructure in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Adding together the losses from vandalism and theft of energy over the last four years, EDM \u201clost the opportunity to supply energy\u201d to more than 500,000 new customers, Gildo concluded.<\/p>\n<p>According to EDM, the situation constitutes one of the company\u2019s \u201cbiggest challenges\u201d, as it \u201cbegins to compromise the achievement of the goal of universal access to energy for all Mozambicans by 2030\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100087406296483\/videos\/683095396625346\/\"><b>video<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. State-owned company Eletricidade de Moc\u0327ambique (EDM) lost around five billion meticais ( 74 million euros) this year to the theft of electricity within the country, the chairman of the board of directors announced on Tuesday. \u201cWe have registered, at alarming levels, the growing rate of energy theft, both by domestic customers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":31280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,18],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-31281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-video","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"State-owned company Eletricidade de Moc\u0327ambique (EDM) lost around five billion meticais ( 74 million euros) this year to ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"State-owned company Eletricidade de Moc\u0327ambique (EDM) lost around five billion meticais ( 74 million euros) this year to ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-21T15:39:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-21T15:45:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671624574.01.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"737\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"435\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-21T15:39:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-21T15:45:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year\"},\"wordCount\":176,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671624574.01.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"video\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year\",\"name\":\"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year - Mozambique\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671624574.01.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-21T15:39:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-21T15:45:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"State-owned company Eletricidade de Moc\u0327ambique (EDM) lost around five billion meticais ( 74 million euros) this year to ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671624574.01.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671624574.01.jpg\",\"width\":737,\"height\":435,\"caption\":\"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/\",\"name\":\"Mozambique\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year - Mozambique","description":"State-owned company Eletricidade de Moc\u0327ambique (EDM) lost around five billion meticais ( 74 million euros) this year to ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year","og_description":"State-owned company Eletricidade de Moc\u0327ambique (EDM) lost around five billion meticais ( 74 million euros) this year to ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year","og_site_name":"Mozambique","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-12-21T15:39:22+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-12-21T15:45:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":737,"height":435,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671624574.01.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year","datePublished":"2022-12-21T15:39:22+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-21T15:45:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year"},"wordCount":176,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671624574.01.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Mozambique","Mozambique"],"articleSection":["all news","economy","video"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year","name":"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year - Mozambique","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671624574.01.jpg","datePublished":"2022-12-21T15:39:22+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-21T15:45:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"State-owned company Eletricidade de Moc\u0327ambique (EDM) lost around five billion meticais ( 74 million euros) this year to ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671624574.01.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671624574.01.jpg","width":737,"height":435,"caption":"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/power-utility-lost-5-billion-meticais-to-electricity-theft-this-year#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Power utility lost 5 billion meticais to electricity theft this year"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/","name":"Mozambique","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}