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A Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) constitui um problema de grande importância e de difícil resolução na política externa portuguesa. Existem dois intervenientes directos - Portugal e Moçambiqqu - mas existe um outro stakeholder - a África do Sul - que, face a uma posição dominante, contratualmente protegida, como comprador de energia, é quem realmente tem poder para decidir dos destinos do Empreendimento. A presente tese demonstra que a actual situação potencia a permanência de condições tarifárias e de endividamento inviáveis para a sobrevivência do Projecto. No entanto, a possível integração da HCB numa REde Energética da África Austral, associada à política moçambicana de desenvolvimento energético permitem vislumbrar uma possível futura rentabilização do Empreendimento. Este processo tem, no entanto, um longo e difícil caminho a percorrer. A presente tese descreve pormenorizadamente o processo de negociações tarifárias que subsiste desde há muito sem consensos que facilitem essa viabilização. A tese conclui apresentando um conjunto de questões que se apresentam como fundamentais para o futuro do Empreendimento de Cahora Bassa. Essas questões não se resumem à revisão tarifária, passando pela reavaliação da posição monopsonista da àfrica do Sul e do próprio papel que o Empreendimento poderá ter no desenvolvimento da região em que se insere, face aos imperativos de caractér político que se levantam.
The Cahora Bassa HydroElecric Project represents a very important problem for portuguese foreign policy, whose solution appears to be extremely difficult. There are two direct participants - Portugal and Mozambique -, but there is an additional stakeholder - South Africa - who, thanks to a dominant position as the sole purchaser of energy which is contractually established, has almost total power regarding the faith of the undertaking. This dissertation demonstrates that the present situation allows for the preservation of tariff conditions and dev«bt requirements that make the survival of the Cahora Bassa Project unfeasible. However, the possible integration of the dam in a Southern African Power Pool, associated with the new energy and development policies of the Mozambican Government may result in a possible future viability of the Cahora Bassa undertaking. Still, this process has a long and difficult path to cross. The present dissertation provides a detailed description of the tariff negitiation process which has been going on for a long time, without any consensus to provide such viability. The dissertation concludes by presenting a set questions that to be fundamental to the future of the Cahora Bassa Project. These questions call not just for advances in the tariff revision process, but also for a re-appraisal of South Africa's monopsonistic role in the project, as well as of the role this undertaking is to assume in the development of it's region given the policital and economic forces at stake.
The Cahora Bassa HydroElecric Project represents a very important problem for portuguese foreign policy, whose solution appears to be extremely difficult. There are two direct participants - Portugal and Mozambique -, but there is an additional stakeholder - South Africa - who, thanks to a dominant position as the sole purchaser of energy which is contractually established, has almost total power regarding the faith of the undertaking. This dissertation demonstrates that the present situation allows for the preservation of tariff conditions and dev«bt requirements that make the survival of the Cahora Bassa Project unfeasible. However, the possible integration of the dam in a Southern African Power Pool, associated with the new energy and development policies of the Mozambican Government may result in a possible future viability of the Cahora Bassa undertaking. Still, this process has a long and difficult path to cross. The present dissertation provides a detailed description of the tariff negitiation process which has been going on for a long time, without any consensus to provide such viability. The dissertation concludes by presenting a set questions that to be fundamental to the future of the Cahora Bassa Project. These questions call not just for advances in the tariff revision process, but also for a re-appraisal of South Africa's monopsonistic role in the project, as well as of the role this undertaking is to assume in the development of it's region given the policital and economic forces at stake.
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Mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Cooperação Internacional
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Viabilidade Tarifas Política energética Desenvolvimento Energia Viability Tariffs Agreements Energy policy Development Energy
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Lima, Graça Maria Martins de (2000). " A viabilidade da hidroeléctrica da Cahora Bassa e da sua integração na rede energética da África Austral". Tese de Mestrado. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão.
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Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão