Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Maputo The Mozambican government is working with the South African authorities to ensure the resumption of full supplies of electricity to the MOZAL aluminium smelter on the outskirts of Maputo. MOZAL uses about 900 megawatts of power. This electricity comes from the company MOTRACO, which was set up specifically to cater for MOZAL's needs. Although MOTRACO is owned jointly by the Mozambican, South African and Swazi electricity utilities (EDM, Eskom and SEB), the power it provides to MOZAL is purchased from Eskom. The arrangements for MOZAL are completely separate from the sale of 1,300 megawatts of power from the Cahora Bassa dm on the Zambezi to Eskom. Because of the South African government's refusal to allow Eskom to invest in new plant earlier this decade, Eskom has been running short of...
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