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This article concerns the relationship between uneven peri-urban growth and heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Metropolitan Maputo, Mozambique. Much research has documented how the diversity and overlap of different energy configurations define energy access in African cities. However, very little attention has been given to how urban growth dynamics shape heterogeneity and vice versa. A growing concern in African cities is highly uneven growth patterns, the rise of middle classes, and the selective forms of infrastructural connectivity linked to such spatial dynamics. However, urban growth is often approached through distinct settlements such as gated or enclave communities. The growth dynamics of energy access in more typical peri-urban neighbourhoods with mixed socio-economic characteristics remains an underexplored theme. Therefore, the critical question of this article is whether …