Mozambique: Solar Panels to Electrify Rural Areas

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A number of districts not covered by the country's power grid will receive solar panels in 2008.

This investment, by the National Energy Fund (FUNAE), is to cater mainly for the districts that are not yet benefiting of the power distributed by the publicly owned Mozambican electricity company EDM, and for which perspective for that effect are not for soon.

Energy Minister Salvador Namburete said in Maputo on Sunday that this project is to create conditions for providing electricity at least to key sectors such as education and health in those districts, particularly in the least favoured localities.

In a first stage, this project is to benefit 150 schools and a similar number of health units.

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