Construction of National Control Centre for Energy Infrastructure, improvement of the reliability and sustainability of the power supply

The EU's Global Gateway portfolio in Mozambique includes a project centred on the construction of a National Control Centre for Energy Infrastructure, alongside broader grid reliability and digital transformation measures including optic fibre installation. The headline investment figure of €84 million, cited in EU promotional materials, requires disaggregation to be meaningful. IATI records, which offer the most reliable publicly available signal of financial commitment, reveal a cluster of related instruments rather than a single coherent programme. The highest-confidence match is the PROMOVE Energia programme (IATI ID: XI-IATI-EC_INTPA-2020-ACT-D-40055-00), which records a committed amount of €84 million over a long implementation window running from January 2020 to December 2039. This long horizon is notable: a project with a twenty-year implementation span carries considerably more delivery risk than the headline commitment figure implies. A second high-confidence match is a dedicated National Control Centre for Energy instrument (IATI ID: XI-IATI-EC_INTPA-2022-ACT-60663), with €18 million committed from December 2022 to December 2030, which appears to represent the specific infrastructure component referenced in the EU project description. Two medium-confidence matches add further context: a technical assistance facility for institutional capacity building across energy stakeholders including the state utility EDM, with €4 million committed and approximately €3 million disbursed; and a non-technical losses reduction project supporting EDM, with €12 million committed and €10 million disbursed. The relatively high disbursement ratios on these two smaller instruments suggest genuine programmatic activity in the sector, though they are preparatory and institutional in character rather than evidence of physical infrastructure delivery. No EIB financing has been recorded against this project, and no independent Tier 1 or Tier 2 news coverage directly addresses the National Control Centre construction or its implementation status. The available independent reporting on Mozambique's energy sector touches on adjacent themes: a feasibility study for the Tete-Maputo power transmission line was presented in May 2026, indicating some forward planning activity in grid development, but this is a separate initiative and cannot be read as confirmation of progress on the control centre.