Jindal Tete Power Station

The Jindal Tete Power Station is a proposed 2,640 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station by Indian company Jindal Steel and Power for Mozambique, between the districts of Songo and Changara. The station is planned for 2015, and will produce electricity from coal in the central province of Tete.

In October, 2011, the Mozambican government authorized Jindal to begin studies for the estimated US$3 billion thermal power station. Jindal has been granted a 25-year mining concession covering 21,540 hectares of land. Jindal projects mining 6.6 million tonnes of coal per year, and investing US$ 180 million dollars in the mine.

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