Mozambique Transmission Upgrade Project

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The Mozambique-Malawi Transmission Interconnection Project (APL-2) development objective is to implement the Mozambique-Malawi Interconnection to: increase access to diversified, reliable, and affordable supplies of energy; and expand Malawi and Mozambique's opportunities to benefit from bilateral and regional power trading on the South African Power Pool (SAPP). The project will consist of three components: (A) Mozambique-Malawi interconnection which entails construction of the transmission interconnection from the Malawi electricity grid to the Mozambique electricity grid, thereby interconnecting Malawi with the SAPP network; (B) capacity building and technical support for upgrade and expansion to support power trading to: (i) strengthen and expand the networks to maximize the benefits of power trading; (ii) to improve Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi's (ESCOM) efficiency and quality of service as the foundation for financial sustainability of the company; (iii) strengthen capacity to achieve the project objectives; and (C) improved infrastructure to support power trading to replace worn-out, inadequate or obsolete equipment to remove critical bottlenecks in the networks which could impede the flow of traded electricity.