Mozambique granted $33 M to improve power grid
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group approved a $33.25 million grant to Mozambique to implement the Songo-Matambo transmission line project.
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Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan: The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group approved a $33.25 million grant to Mozambique to implement the Songo-Matambo transmission line project.
The goal of the project is to increase the reliability and security of Mozambique’s electrical supply and to promote regional integration of the electricity network and power trade. It includes the construction of a 118 km, 400 kV high-voltage single-circuit transmission line from Songo to Matambo. The line will cross the location where the planned Cataxa substation will be built to integrate the planned Mphanda Nkuwa hydroelectric power plant and will use self-supporting steel mesh overhead towers carrying a horizontal conductor configuration with an energy transport capacity of 2,300 MW.
The plan is to expand the Songo substation in order to extend the 220 kV busbar, install a new 600 MVA 220/220 kV phase shift transformer to regulate grid flows and a 3×200 MVA 220/400 (300) kV step-up transformer. The current 3×200 MVA 220/400 (300) kV transformer will also be refurbished, while extensive work will be carried out at the Matambo substation, which will be expanded. A new 400 kV feed supply to the new 400 kV Matambo extension will be built to integrate the 400 kV line from Songo. The project beneficiary area is the province of Tete, located in the Zambezi Valley Development Corridor, in the border area with Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Source: Ecofin Agency