Mozambique: KfW to fund Malawi interconnector

Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) has announced that it has secured a loan of €29m from Germany’s KfW. The financing is made up of €20m for construction of a power interconnector with Malawi, and €9m for EDM’s short-term transmission investment plan. A first feasibility study for the interconnector was carried out in 1996 by Germany’s Lahmeyer International. It recommended the construction of a 210km, 220kV transmission line to transfer 200MW between the Matambo substation in Mozambique and the Phombeya substation near Blantyre in Malawi, with a total cost of $32m.