Vale Tete Power Station

The Vale Tete Power Station is a proposed 1,800 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station by Brazilian mining company Vale for the Tete province of Mozambique. Construction is planned to begin in 2013.

Vale operates the biggest coal mine in the world: Moatize mine in the Tete province. Vale said the plant will put part of the Moatize mine’s thermal coal reserves to use, generating electricity that will be used for the power grid centered on the Cahora Bassa hydroelectric power plant, also in the Tete province.

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