Mozambique’s power utility Cahora Bassa Hydro Electric (HCB) plans to boost power output from the Cahora Bassa Dam by up to 1 000 megawatts in order to meet local and regional power demands. A new study will seek to evaluate the dam’s potential to increase output, said HCB CEO Paulo Muxanga on Saturday.
South Africa’s state power utility is near a deal to buy more electricity from Mozambique’s Cahora Bassa development in a bid to ease an energy crisis threatening Africa’s largest economy, a Mozambican official said on Tuesday. Eskom is negotiating to buy an additional 250MW of electricity per day from Hydroelectrica de Cahora Bassa.
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/ 11 September 2007
Mozambique has doubled power supplies to its neighbour, Zimbabwe, which has been hit by massive power cuts, news reports said on Tuesday. The new deal came although Zimbabwe power company Zesa Holdings, which earlier this year declared itself broke, has an outstanding -million debt with Mozambican power supplier HCB, the official Herald newspaper said.