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Mozambique’s president

turns first stone on Temane,

country’s gas-fired power plant

MOZAMBIQUE MOZAMBIQUE President Filipe Nyusi has laid Finance Corporation will provide up to $200mn
the first stone of the $2bn natural gas-fired Cen- in a direct loan to CTT, according to a press
tral Termica de Temane (CTT) power plant at release by the US embassy in Mozambique on
Inhassoro, in the south of the country. Monday.
The project will also invovle a 563km-long “The U.S. government, the government of
electricity transmission line from Temane to Mozambique, and other partners worked closely
Maputo and a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to get us here today, breaking ground on a pro-
plant. ject that supports Mozambique in its goal to
“From a geo-strategic point of view, the provide every citizen with access to electricity by
energy sector development plan will enable the 2030,” said Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy
country to reach simultaneously core objectives to Mozambique Abigail Dressel. “The Temane
such as energy autonomy, as well as becoming energy project is essential to the economic trans-
a paramount stakeholder of power supply to formation underway in Mozambique and south-
SADC (Southern African Development Com- ern Africa and we’re proud to support it.”
munity) member states,” he said. The loan, the statement said, will help support
The project will provide 30,000 tonnes of LPG the design, construction, and eventual operation
per year and 4,000 barrels per day of light oil. of the power station. Power Africa, a US govern-
Construction of the power plant is expected to ment initiative to support the development of
be completed by November 2024 with electricity energy facilities on the continent, provided EDM
supplies set to begin the following year. with an advisor from January 2018 to December
Sasol Petroleum of South Africa, already 2020 to support the organisational and technical
invested in the area, is the operator in the needs of the Temane Transmission Project.
onshore project, estimated at 1-1.5 trillion cubic Since 2013, the US government says, the ini-
feet of recoverable gas and 30mn-40mn barrels tiative has added more than 13,000MW of elec-
of liquids. tricity and more than 29mn new connections for
UK’s Globeleq, the largest independent homes and businesses in Africa.
power producer in sub-Saharan Africa and Elec- “Power Africa is proud to support the Temane
tricidade de Moçambique (EDM), the national Transmission Project as it connects more people
power utility are the other investors. to power, opens up cross-border trade oppor-
The proposed facility will supply electricity tunities, strengthens the country’s energy resil-
EDM under a 25-year contract. Neighbouring ience, and accelerates economic development,”
Zimbabwe and South Africa, as well as Eswatini, said Power Africa coordinator Mark Carrato,
are possible export markets. according to the US government statement.™
The United States International Development

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