2022 Just Energy Transition Conference Report_ENG
With the slogan “Leaving no one behind”, the CDD Just Energy Transition Conference held in Maputo on July 21, 2022, has tracked the challenges and opportunities on energy access and energy transition in Mozambique. Almost 20 speakers from relevant fields contributes and discussed on the promotion of equality of opportunity and social inclusion in investing in affordable, decentralised mixed-energy systems. They remarked on the dimension of inclusion in the energy transition, the youth/gender perspectives and the role of civil society on the ground. How to accelerate access to energy in Mozambique, intensify the deployment of renewable energy, and achieve economic growth? This was one of the main issues discussed on the panels designed scenarios for a transformational policy, implications of international measures on the domestic economy and opportunity to diversify the economy. READ THE FULL REPORT.
With the slogan “Leaving no one behind”, the CDD Just Energy Transition Conference held in Maputo on July 21, 2022, has tracked the challenges and opportunities on energy access and energy transition in Mozambique. Almost 20 speakers from relevant fields contributes and discussed on the promotion of equality of opportunity and social inclusion in investing in affordable, decentralised mixed-energy systems. They remarked on the dimension of inclusion in the energy transition, the youth/gender perspectives and the role of civil society on the ground. How to accelerate access to energy in Mozambique, intensify the deployment of renewable energy, and achieve economic growth? This was one of the main issues discussed on the panels designed scenarios for a transformational policy, implications of international measures on the domestic economy and opportunity to diversify the economy.
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ARENE/ FUNAE:<br />
FROM ACCESS TO REGULATION<br />
From left to right: Jocelyne Machevo (<strong>Energy</strong> Specialist), Eng. Felisbela Cunhete (Member of the Board of Directors of ARENE), Filipe Mondlane<br />
(Advisor to the FUNAE Board of Directors),<br />
The <strong>Energy</strong> Regulatory Authority<br />
(ARENE) is an energy regulatory<br />
body with powers to regulate and<br />
supervise the electricity, natural gas<br />
and liquid fuels subsectors, thus<br />
ensuring the alignment of the energy<br />
sector with international best<br />
practices. Created by Law No.<br />
11/2017 of 8 September, it is a legal<br />
entity governed by public law, with<br />
legal personality and administrative,<br />
nancial, patrimonial and technical<br />
autonomy.<br />
According to Felisbela Cunhete,<br />
member of the board of directors of<br />
ARENE, in the context of the energy<br />
transition, ARENE has been working<br />
with partners to produce<br />
communication tools for citizens, as<br />
a way of making regulations more<br />
accessible. “We have been working<br />
not only on the regulatory side, but<br />
also on activating demand, with a<br />
view to educating the consumers<br />
about the use, their rights and also<br />
raising awareness on safety in the<br />
use of these energy systems,” she<br />
said.<br />
Filipe Mondlane, advisor to the<br />
board of directors of FUNAE, said<br />
that EDM has been concerned with<br />
expanding access through<br />
densi cation, where there is a<br />
national grid, and where there is not,<br />
the company extends it. “For cases of<br />
populations more than 30 km away,<br />
depending on the density of families<br />
and the region’s productive potential,<br />
FUNAE promotes mini-grids,” he<br />
explained. For FUNAE, the<br />
promotion of local development<br />
through access to<br />
energy is only possible with the<br />
principle of productive use. The<br />
dispersion in rural areas is a<br />
challenge and in this case, the<br />
institution promotes autonomous<br />
solar systems using photovoltaic<br />
technology (to maintain hospitals,<br />
schools and other services) and the<br />
promotion of residential solar<br />
systems where the private sector has<br />
increased its intervention.<br />
FUNAE is a Mozambican public<br />
institution created under Decree<br />
24/1997 of 22 July, with the changes<br />
introduced by Decree 101/2020 of 12<br />
November, with the aim of nancing<br />
and implementing energy projects in<br />
order to increase their access in rural<br />
areas.<br />
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