Mozambique's utility names 46 towers as its highest climate risk.

For an asset owner or a PPA holder taking supply in Mozambique, the national utility has now put a count and a region on the parts of its network most likely to fail in severe weather. Electricidade de Mocambique says it is writing resilience criteria into both new build and the maintenance of what it already runs, an approach it set out at its own seminar on "Desafios das Mudancas Climaticas no Sector Electrico" during the 61st Maputo International Fair.

The structures flagged as highest risk are 11 towers in the north, eight in the centre and 27 in the south, together with critical sections of the distribution network in several regions. That is 46 towers, and well over half of them stand in the southern region.

The cost already absorbed is stated plainly. Extreme climate events caused damage put at 76 million United States dollars between 2022 and 2026, with 9.29 million dollars of that attributed to this year's floods in the south of the country.

A climate risk and disaster management unit now sits inside the utility to coordinate mitigation, adaptation and resilience work, and hiring for it began in 2026. The utility puts the bill for reinforcing the transmission network, the distribution network and substations at 103 million dollars to 2028, of which roughly 39 million dollars falls in the first year of implementation. Alongside the civil work, it intends to broaden its supply sources and to position emergency equipment, solar panels and generators, in remote districts and at critical sites including hospitals.

Assessment: a figure published as a funding requirement, rather than as money already committed, leaves the order of works open, so grid reliability for a buyer in the south depends on which of those 27 towers is reached first.

What is worth watching is narrow. Whether the first year's 39 million dollars is actually raised, and whether the distribution sections feeding a given connection sit among those named critical, will say more about continuity of supply over the next two summers than the headline total does.