Mozambique approves Benga coal-fired power station
Mozambique granted Australian coal producer Riversdale Mining environmental approval for the construction of the Benga power plant in the Tete province, Mozambique.
The two-stage project would help meet increasing regional demand for electricity in Mozambique and South Africa. Its first phase would see the construction of a 500MW coal-fired, mine-mouth power station and will use existing transmission assets. Completion is expected in 2013. During the second stage, the joint venture between Riversdale Mining and India’s Tata Steel will be upgraded by around 2000MW, depending on the proposed transmission backbone and other transmission capacity.
Riversdale also announced that it had been granted access to the existing Mozambican power transmission network. (Engineering News, South Africa)
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