Mozambique

Thermal power stations

• ACWA Power Moatize Termoeléctrica, a consortium made up of Brazil’s Vale, Japan’s Mitsui, Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), has announced the development of a thermoelectric power station in Mozambique’s Tete province, with an estimated cost of US$1 billion. In addition, the Japanese government is to grant Mozambique a loan of US$167 million to build a gas fired power station in Maputo.

• Sasol and its Mozambican partner, the country’s state-owned power utility, Electricidade de Moçambique, approved investment in a gas-fired power generation facility in Ressano Garcia, Mozambique. The project aimed to start electricity generation in the second quarter of calendar year 2014. The main supply of natural gas for the plant comes from the Central Processing Facility at Temane in Mozambique, which is part of a Petroleum Production Agreement signed between Sasol, ENH, Companhia Moçambicana de Hidrocarbonetos S.A. (CMH) and IFC.

Hydroelectric power stations

• Cahora Bassa hydroelecric scheme was built between 1977 and 1979 and can transmit 1920 MW at a voltage level of ±533 kilovolts and 1800 Amperes. Most of the electricity generated by Cahora Bassa, which is located on the Zambezi River in western Mozambique, is sold to nearby South Africa. In 2006, Cahora Bassa transmitted about 1 920 MW of power, but the infrastructure is capable of higher production levels and the company had plans to almost double its output by 2008.

• China’s Export-Import Bank has agreed to help fund the 1 500-MW Mphanda Nkuwa project further downstream on the Zambezi in Mozambique. The Mphanda Nkuwa scheme is a run-of-river project that will not flood much land.