{"id":243122,"date":"2026-09-03T20:50:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-edm-records-estimated-losses-of-76-million-dollars-due-to-extreme-weather-events\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:50:48","slug":"mozambique-edm-records-estimated-losses-of-76-million-dollars-due-to-extreme-weather-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-edm-records-estimated-losses-of-76-million-dollars-due-to-extreme-weather-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: EDM Records Estimated Losses of 76 Million Dollars Due to Extreme Weather Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Marracuene \u2014 Extreme weather events have caused losses estimated at 76 million US dollars to Mozambique&#8217;s publicly-owned electricity company, EDM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">These losses were recorded between 2022 and 2026, forcing the company to strengthen the resilience of its power generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">According to S\u00edlvio Nurmahomed, EDM Director of Electrification and Projects, who was speaking on Wednesday at a seminar on &#8220;Climate Change Challenges in Electricity Sector&#8221;, held&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609030307.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marracuene \u2014 Extreme weather events have caused losses estimated at 76 million US dollars to Mozambique&#8217;s publicly-owned electricity company, EDM. These losses were recorded between 2022 and 2026, forcing the company to strengthen the resilience of its power generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure. According to S\u00edlvio Nurmahomed, EDM Director of Electrification and Projects, who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,13172,6605,9023,4267,16390,10411,9741,5118,4704,682,257,6850,254,10412],"class_list":["post-243122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dollars","tag-due","tag-edm","tag-estimated","tag-events","tag-extreme","tag-losses","tag-million","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-records","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weather"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}