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Revised in July 2024, this map provides a detailed view of the power sector in Mozambique. The locations of power generation facilities that are operating, under construction or planned are shown by type – including liquid fuels, natural gas, coal, hydroelectricity, solar, wind and biomass/biogas. Generation sites are marked with different sized circles to show sites of 1-9MW, 10-99MW, 100-499MW and 500MW and above. Projects including battery energy storage are shown, as are key substations. Existing and future transmission and distribution lines are shown ranging from 66kV to 500kV+. Actual and planned cross-border interconnectors are also shown including lines to Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Two insets provide greater detail of the regions around Chimoio and Maputo. Two small pie charts show total installed capacity by fuel in 2023 and 2024. Power generation data was drawn from our African Energy Live Data platform, which contains project level detail on power plants and projects across Africa. The map is presented as a PDF file using eps graphics, meaning that there is no loss of resolution as the file is enlarged.  

State utility Eskom has announced that the Kusile coal-fired power plant’s 800MW Unit V has begun supplying electricity to the grid, while repairs continue to a damaged flue duct, which has taken three other units offline.

French major TotalEnergie has agreed to take a 60% stake and operatorship in a second offshore block, north of Principé island.

A 250MW deal between Karpowership and the authorities in Libreville comes as the Turkish floating power plant provider continues to attract interest from other African countries in need of quickly deployable on-grid baseload capacity additions, including Liberia, Guinea and Equatorial Guinea, writes Marc Howard.

Another lesser-known UAE royal has turned up touting business in Africa, with RAK ruling family member Sheikh Ahmed Bin Faisal Al-Qassimi signing deals to develop cable manufacturing and smart electricity meter plants in Zimbabwe and an investment agreement in Uganda, writes Eleanor Gillespie.

The National Transmission Company of South Africa opened for business on 1 July, marking an important step in the wider reform programme for state utility Eskom and the unbundling electricity supply industry.

The 225MW Saint Louis combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) development on Senegal’s north-west coast is nearing financial close, according to a progress update given to African Energy by Turkish developer Aksa Energy.

Faced by a severe drought which has seen water levels fall dramatically at its hydroelectric power plants, Zambia is hoping to revive abandoned private sector-led power projects and speed up work on an interconnector with Tanzania.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has formally cancelled a $1m grant to the now-abandoned Kibera Waste Pilot plant in Nairobi, following extensive procurement problems and a breakdown in its relationship with developer Asticom Kenya.

Meridiam-owned Rift Valley Energy has secured $15m in funding from the UK’s development finance institution British International Investment (BII) to build 7.6MW of wind and hydroelectric power projects.

Senior Kenyan officials have confirmed that the government’s moratorium on independent power projects should be lifted soon after the controversial 2024/25 budget is approved by the National Assembly. However, the passage of the finance bill has become entangled with anger over a cost-of-living crisis, with protestors storming the parliament on 25 June and even President Ruto’s apparent about-turn not calming tensions, writes Jon Marks.

The axing of subsidies on premium motor spirit (PMS) by President Bola Tinubu has made the fuel far more expensive for Nigerian drivers – prompting Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation to test the local appetite for compressed natural gas as an alternative transport fuel.

The issue leads with a series of articles examining the state of Africa's refineries and downstream sector. Although unfashionable, refineries are likely to prove increasingly important to Africa’s energy security, with investors backing new downstream projects in Nigeria, Angola, Uganda and South Africa. These are expected to narrow the refined products trade imbalance in sub-Saharan Africa, where backers also highlight the role of ‘transition fuels’ such as LPG The package includes articles focused on Angola, Nigeria and South Africa and an updated refineries, CTL and GTL map. Power coverage includes an examination of the news that Guinea and Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom) have signed a memorandum of understanding to deploy floating nuclear power capacity. African Energy also looks at suggestions that Kenya's ban on new IPPs could be ended ‘within months’ and takes a look at the progress being made with Egypt’s giga-scale wind ambitions. Upstream oil and gas coverage leads with Libya, where NOC's failure to account for its multi-billion dollar budgets is now threatening operations, while two rival ministers compete for control and services giant Schlumberger has threatened to suspend operations until its debts are paid. African Energy also looks at the continuing souring of relations between Niger and Benin. Any sense of optimism prompted by the first cargo of Nigerien oil exports leaving Benin’s Sèmè-Kpodji port in mid-May has been quickly extinguished, with a planned second shipment cancelled after Benin arrested five Nigerien pipeline employees at the port. Finance and policy coverage looks at AfDB's ever increasing ambitions for infrastructure development and a wide range of other initiatives, including support for the proposed multi-user Liberty infrastructure corridor, which would enable production from HPX’s Mount Nimba iron ore play and increase demand for power from regional hydroelectric schemes. The African Energy View focuses on the huge upscaling of private investment needed for Africa to increase energy access and industrialise.

Johannesburg-based Decentral Energy has started operations at a 1MW solar PV plant to supply power to the GWK Farm Foods maize mill in Christiana, North West province.

Finland’s Wärtsilä has renewed its partnership with state utility Onee to maintain thermal power plants at Tan Tan and Dakhla.