Half of Mozambican families do not have any electricity supply solution at home and of those that do, almost 20% are guaranteed with solar panels for self-consumption, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) of that country.
According to the Survey on the impact of access to sustainable energy in 2022, completed this month by the INE of Mozambique, 50.1% of the more than 6.3 million households in the country had access to a connection Of electricity. Of this total, 32% had access through the national electricity grid and 18.1% through other sources.
“This means that 49.9% of homes are without connection to the grid or other electrical solutions, a situation that is more serious in rural areas (86.8%), the provinces of Tete (84.7% ) and Zambézia (83.3%)”, reads the INE report.
It adds that “the few households with electricity in the rural area” have greater access through solar energy (85.3%), rechargeable batteries (74.9%) and dry cells (71.4%) compared to the area urban, which uses electricity from the national grid (72.2%) and an electric generator (58.3%).
In households that have access to electricity in the home from sources other than the national or local grid, solutions for dry cell batteries dominate (47.1%)followed by solar energy for self-consumption (19.4%), in addition to rechargeable batteries (1.8%) and generators (0.5%).
Regarding the energy profile of Mozambique, the INE reports that the country has an installed potential for electrical production of 2,966 Megawatts, with hydraulic energy being the main source of production and renewable energies representing 77% of the total capacity.
“Production from natural gas is the main source of non-renewable energy, contributing about 10% of world production. In Mozambique, 50% of the energy produced is exported to neighboring countries, with the Republic of South Africa being the main destination, with a weight of around 80.0% of exports”, the INE study also points out.
Source: Observadora
