- Mozambique’s Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy has called for greater commitment from cooperation partners to achieve the country’s strategic energy goals.
- The minister also revealed that Mozambique recently joined the Mission 300 Initiative, which aims to accelerate the electrification of Sub-Saharan Africa and ensure access to energy for 300 million people by 2030.
Mozambique’s Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Estevão Pale, has called for greater commitment from cooperation partners to achieve the country’s strategic energy goals as Mozambique joins Mission 300 Initiative.
The call was made during the Annual Meeting of the Energy Sector Working Group, held in Maputo. The meeting brought together several key players, including cooperation partners, diplomatic representatives, and companies from the energy sector, to review strategic investment priorities for the sector’s sustainable development.
In his speech, Minister Pale highlighted the progress made over the last five years, as a result of joint work between the executive and partners. The electricity access rate in Mozambique increased from 30 per cent in 2018 to 61 per cent in 2023, with a record of over 500,000 new connections in a single year – 70 per cent through the national grid and 30 per cent through off-grid solutions.
The minister also revealed that Mozambique recently joined the Mission 300 Initiative, which aims to accelerate the electrification of Sub-Saharan Africa and ensure access to energy for 300 million people by 2030.
Estevão Pale thanked the partners for their continued support and reaffirmed the government’s intention to count on their collaboration on several fronts, namely in the promotion of clean cooking solutions, through climate financing mechanisms, the strengthening of the participation of renewable energy in the national energy matrix and the equitable expansion of access to energy in rural and urban areas.
The meeting reinforces the importance of international dialogue and cooperation to accelerate the inclusive and sustainable energy transition in the country.
Speaking on behalf of the cooperation partners, Haakon Gram-Johannessen (Norwegian Ambassador to Mozambique], said that Mozambique had set ambitious goals for the energy sector by aiming to achieve 100 per cent access to energy for Mozambican families, and on behalf of the cooperation partners, he has shown openness to supporting the government of Mozambique in the search for inclusive economic growth and a fair energy transition.