📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P175295
Region: Africa east
Commitment Amount: Us$ 200.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 205.00 million
The project development objective is to increase access to energy and broadband services in project areas and strengthen the operati onal performance of the electric utility.
Atits core, theproject harnesses digital technologies and least cost design elements to connect households, enterprises, hospitals, schools to energy and broadband services; thus enabling new economic, health, and educational opportunities in some of the most fragile locations. Theproject adopts a coordinated approach to capture synergies in the mutual deployment of energy and ICT infrastructure and services. Component 1: Peri-urban and Rural Electrification(US $85 million)26.Building on the ongoing activities under the WB-financed Mozambique Energy for All (ProEnergia) Project (P165453), this component will provide access to electricity to over 1,000,000 beneficiaries primarily through grid densification and expansion. This component will finance the design, procurement of materials and construction works required to electrify all participating households, businesses and public facilities in the project target areas with high population density (in peri-urban and rural areas). The project is at national level but focusing on areas where access to electricity is low, like in the northern provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Niassa and Zambezia where an added strain on current infrastructure is expected due to flows of displaced people to urban and peri-urban areas close to Cabo Delgado province’s borders and around the district capitals of these four provinces. Component 2: Improvement of EDM financial performance (US $60 million)27.This component will improve financial performance of EDM and strengthen structural and institutional frameworkof the sector. This component will comprise the following two pillars: a) improve electricity sector financial sustainability through measures toenhance EDM’s financial and operational performance; and b) enhance sector governance and institutional capacity by supporting the government’s policy positions being proposed through a revision of the Electricity Law. It will also aim to capture opportunities to better leverage EDM’s fiber-optic network and utilize its transmission infrastructure to support broadband market development while generating additional revenue. Component 3: Off-grid energy and broadband service delivery (US $45 million)28.This component will support electrification of areas in Mozambique where off-grid solutions are the least-cost or most-viable solutions due to (i) high costs of the infrastructure required to reach customers through the grid, or (ii) difficulty to provide grid solutions due to risks related to the escalating conflict.
