Electricity from Mozambique needs €106M to recover infrastructures
The state-owned company Electricidade de Moçambique needs $ 120 million to recover the infrastructure destroyed by cyclone Idai in the center of the country, the company announced today.
The administrator for EDM’s Operational Area, Carlos Yum, told public radio station Rádio Moçambique that most of the investment will be channeled to the rehabilitation of the power supply line from the Mavúzi dam in the province of Manica to the substation of Munhava, in the city of Beira.
Cyclone Idai left more than 95% of EDM’s customers in the provinces of Sofala, Manica, Tete and Zambézia without electricity.
Carlos Yum said that the company is preparing a conference of investors to mobilize the money needed for the rehabilitation of the destroyed infrastructure.
In Mozambique, the cyclone made 602 dead and 1,641 injured and affected more than 1.5 million people, according to the latest balance sheet.
The Mozambican Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday the seventh death caused by the cholera outbreak that broke out after the cyclone Idai passed through the center of the country.