Temane/Maputo Line will be tested for reliability this May

Reliability tests of the equipment installed in the three substations under construction in the country, within the scope of the project for the electricity transmission line between Temane and Maputo, at 400kV. In total, the infrastructure comprises four substations, three of which are completely new ones and one, in Maputo, which consists of works to expand an old one and operation. These are the substations that are being implemented in Pambara, in the district of Vilankulo, in the province of Inhambane; Chibuto, in Gaza; and Matalana in the district of Marracuene, in Maputo. In almost all three new substations, work is 93 percent complete execution, so the conditions are practically created for the tests start in May, lasting at least two months. According to Adriano Jonas, director of the Transport Line Construction Project Temane/Maputo (TTP), the 400 KV infrastructure, with around 563 kilometers of extension, will evacuate the power that will be generated in the Thermoelectric Plant, based in natural gas extracted from the Pande and Temane deposits, in Inhambane, by South African multinational Sasol. Adriano Jonas explained to “Notícias” that the Chibuto substation will have a installed capacity of 800 MVA, enough to satisfy all needs of electrification of industrial and agricultural enterprises in the province of Gaza.                                                         “Therefore, it will be possible to satisfy, from this infrastructure, the needs of power of a good part of the southern region of the country”, said Jonas. The source also detailed that during the power supply circuit, the substation Pambara will reduce power from 400 to 110 KV as a way of ensuring supply to that area. The Chibuto substation, in Gaza, will be reduced from 400 to 275 KV, where it is being built a line to Dzimbene, an area located on the boundary between the districts of Bilene and Chókwè. In turn, the Matalene substation should reduce from 400 to 66 KV, allowing access to the national energy network and the export of electricity.