{"id":10261,"date":"2012-04-25T16:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/mozambique-gigawatts-100-mw-plant-to-start-in-2013\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:30:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:30:57","slug":"mozambique-gigawatts-100-mw-plant-to-start-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mozambique-gigawatts-100-mw-plant-to-start-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Gigawatt&#8217;s 100 MW plant to start in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">MAPUTO, April 25<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Privately held Gigawatt<br \/>\nMozambique expects to complete the construction of a 100 MW<br \/>\ngas-fired power plant by the end of next year, the chairman of<br \/>\nthe company said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The plant, estimated to cost $230 million and be located at<br \/>\nthe Ressano Garcia border between Mozambique and South Africa,<br \/>\nwill feed electricity to the national grid, run by state-owned<br \/>\nutility Electricidade de Mocambique (EDM).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The capacity of the plant could be doubled in future.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While initially the power will be bought by EDM, the company<br \/>\nhopes to attract buyers, especially from industry, who will pay<br \/>\nhigher tariffs to make the project sustainable over the long<br \/>\nterm, said Gigawatt chairman Castigo Langa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are now negotiating the power purchase deal. Once we<br \/>\nhave finalised it, we will get the funds to build and run the<br \/>\n100 MW plant and, in a second stage, expand to 200 MW,&#8221; he told<br \/>\nReuters on the sidelines of a mining and energy conference in<br \/>\nMaputo.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gas is seen as an attractive source to provide electricity<br \/>\nto Mozambique after recent major gas discoveries off its central<br \/>\ncoast. Analysts estimate Mozambique to have recoverable<br \/>\nresources of more than 100 trillion cubic feet.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most of Mozambique&#8217;s electricity is generated from the<br \/>\nCahora Bassa hydro dam, although most of that power is exported<br \/>\nto South Africa.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by William Mapote, writing by Agnieszka Flak,<br \/>\nediting by William Hrdy)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAPUTO, April 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Privately held Gigawatt Mozambique expects to complete the construction of a 100 MW gas-fired power plant by the end of next year, the chairman of the company said on Wednesday. The plant, estimated to cost $230 million and be located at the Ressano Garcia border between Mozambique and South Africa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}