Mozambique
In Mozambique, only a third of the population has access to electricity and only 4% is using clean cooking energy. In rural areas, access rates are even lower. EnDev Mozambique supports households in gaining access to the national grid, helps to bring quality photovoltaic products to the markets and strengthens the dissemination of improved cookstoves. It champions innovative results-based approaches that also provide gender incentives, thereby enhancing the development of self-sustaining markets. Also, EnDev supports the government in creating a national monitoring platform for energy access.
Technologies used in this project
- Grid
- Improved cookstoves
- Stand-alone systems
Country data
- People with access to electricity: 812,387*
- People with access to modern cooking energy: 444,037*
- MSMEs with access to modern energy services: 74*
- SIs with access to modern energy services: 7*
- *Achievements until December 2024
Approach
Grid densification
Poor households in peri-urban areas located close to existing low-voltage power lines are supported to gain access to the national grid. EnDev Mozambique works through agreements with Electricidade de Mocambique (EdM) on grid densification in selected areas. In a second step, EdM subcontracts local companies to connect a certain number of preselected new customers. EnDev offers a one-time subsidy to cover partly the connection costs of poor households, while at the same time creating awareness, supporting credit-based payment schemes and fostering energy efficiency with the use of efficient light bulbs.
Solar systems
In the field of small solar products (picoPV) and solar home systems (SHS) the project works closely with the private sector along the entire value chain. Technical and business training is offered to importers, wholesalers and retailers of solar products, while networking and business relationships are facilitated between them. One focus is to unlock import capacity to bring a wider range of quality products to the markets. At the same time, efforts are being made to support new distribution channels reaching out into rural areas with new partners, where EnDev´s role is to assist the private sector with overcoming initial market entry barriers and developing last-mile distribution channels.
Improved cookstoves
EnDev Mozambique supports the implementation of the national Biomass Energy Strategy (BEST) to reduce transaction costs and achieve economies of scale. The emerging markets for improved cookstoves (ICS) are strengthened following a fully commercial approach supporting local companies.
Fund for Sustainable Access to Renewable Energy (FASER)
Over the past five years, EnDev has successfully established and supported off-grid solar and clean cooking companies with results-based financing (RBF) through FASER. The primary objective of FASER is to stimulate the value and distribution chain of energy access technology markets in Mozambique by providing RBFs to off-grid solar and clean cooking companies. FASER’s design and lessons learned served as an important blueprint for the design of the new World Bank funded RBF fund energia+ under FUNAE (Fundo de
Energia), ensuring the up-scaling of the approach to support the Mozambican government’s goal of achieving universal access by 2030. FASER’s market-based approach has been adopted and refined for the new FUNAE fund, as it has proven successful in incentivising private sector participation. The FUNAE fund is designed to accelerate the deployment of distributed renewable energy and clean cooking solutions in underserved communities, a similar range of technologies as within FASER, to promote comprehensive energy access, potentially including productive use of equipment and other appliances along the way.
