Malawi should expect to start tapping electricity from Mozambique at least by mid-next year under the Malawi-Mozambique Interconnector Project, a contractor at Matambo power substation in Mozambique has hinted.
Works are underway for construction of a power sub-station at Matambo in Mozambique and putting up of power lines from there to Zobue near Mwanza.
It will be feeding 50 megawatts into the national grid from Mozambique’s Cahora Bassa hydropower plant.
Intec Gopa, a German engineering firm, is doing the work at Matambo, and projects to conclude it between May and June 2025.
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Its consulting engineer, Suraj Prakash, said 60 percent of the work is done which includes designing, procurement and part of construction.
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“The expectation of this project is that by December this year, we should be able to conclude the construction [of the sub-station]. Transmission of the power will depend mostly on another portion of the project which is putting up the transmission line.
“This is a dedicated line which will only be supplying power to Malawi. It is a single circuit line and in the future, when the capacity will be upgraded, another circuit will be coming from here for us to upgrade the power supply in Malawi,” he said.
The power transmission line would help boost electricity supply in the country.
Construction works for the power interconnector transmission line were launched in November 2021 by President Lazarus Chakwera and his Mozambican counterpart Phillip Felipe Nyusi.
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At the time, it was projected to cost $127 million.
