Malawi will start importing 50 megawatts (mw0 of electricity from Mozambique in February 2026, with the government committing to pay $5 million monthly for the power.
Natural Resources, Energy and Mining Minister Jean Mathanga announced this on Sunday after touring Phombeya Sub-station, where she gauged progress of the project.
The initial deadline was October this year.
Mathanga said construction works, which in 2023, were nearing completion.
“My impression is that we are making very good progress towards completion of the project. We are expecting to add about 50 megawatts to the grid from this project come February [2026],” Mathanga said.
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Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi acting Chief Executive Officer Sinos Maliano said the project was 99 percent complete on the Malawi side and 98 percent complete on the Mozambican side.
He said through the interconnector, Malawi would import power from Mozambique’s Tete-Matambo substation, moving about 218 kilometers—144 kilometers in Mozambique and 74 kilometres in Malawi.
“We are remaining with the advanced shunt reactor, variable shunt reactor, and we have done 74 kilometres of towers and stringing, which represents around 99 percent.
“On the Mozambican side, the Matambo Sub-station is complete at 100 percent, with only two towers connecting across the 1.8-kilometre Zambezi River crossing remaining to be finalised,” Maliano said.
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The February deadline is the fourth to be announced by officials since the project’s inception.
This is coming after the project missed deadlines in December 2023, October 2024 and September 2025.
