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Low Cost Rural Electrification Plan for Electricidade de Moçambique

Mozambique

Client:

Electricidade de Moçambique (EdM)
Project was undertaken jointly with Maunsell/AECOM

Project Status: Completed in 2008

Mozambique Project Outline
Maunsell Ltd (New Zealand) in association with PSD Consulting Engineering (Pty) Ltd. (South Africa) developed a Low Cost Rural Electrification Plan (LCREP) to assist the Government of Mozambique (GOM) in fulfilling their vision of 20% of the nation’s population having access to electricity by 2020. This project was funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida).

Services to Client

•	Site supervisor and project management
•	Compilation of master plans for the development of electrical networks in rural areas
•	Preparation of equipment specifications, standards and drawings
•	Preparation of rural electrification packages for presentation to donor and funding institutions
•	Participation in donor conference

Project Detail
The project assignment included:

•	Establishment of site office in Maputo, Mozambique
•	Provision of site supervision and project management services, and project facilities
•	Extensive data collection, processing and electronic capturing
•	Development of rural electrification ranking criteria
•	Identifying, defining and quantifying of potential rural electrification projects
•	Mapping of existing power lines and production of network single-line drawings
•	Power system studies and analysis including system modelling, power transfer, fault level and losses
•	Cost estimating
•	Compilation of rural electrification master plan
•	Preparation of equipment specifications, standards, drawings, and guidelines
•	Preparation of rural electrification packages for presentation to donor and funding institutions
•	PSD participated in an international donor conference that were held in Maputo (Feb. 2008)

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