Two solar mini-grid concessions in Gaza are open to objection for thirty days.

For a generator or asset owner with a competing claim on land or load in Gaza province, there is now a dated window in which to contest two solar concessions before they pass to another company. Mozambique's electricity regulator, the Autoridade Reguladora de Energia (ARENE), has published a notice calling on anyone who considers they have a right to object to say so within thirty days.

Both concessions are for photovoltaic mini-grids, small generation and distribution systems that serve a defined local area rather than feeding a national network. One would sit at Funguane, in the Alto-Changana administrative post of Chibuto district, at -24.4092726 S, 33.2879312 E. The other would sit at Mualati, in the Chivongoene administrative post of Guija district, at -24.3750265 S, 33.1706204 E. Both are sought by ARC POWER Moteal, S.A., whose registered office is in Maputo.

The authority cited is paragraph b) of number 6 of article 9 of the rules on awarding mini-grid concessions, approved by "Diploma Ministerial n.º 68/2023, de 31 de Maio". The notice is dated 15 April 2026 at Maputo, and representations are directed to the regulator's offices in the capital. The thirty days, though, are counted from the second appearance of the notice in the newspaper Noticias, a date the notice itself does not give.

Assessment: because the clock starts with a newspaper rather than with the dated notice, independent power producers with an interest in either site are relying on a print title to tell them the window has opened, and on their own reading of when the second publication fell.

The notice grants nothing: it opens the objection stage of an award process for a named applicant. The implication is that the date to hold is not this one but the decision that follows the close of the window, which the notice does not schedule.