{"id":3203,"date":"2014-06-26T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T03:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2014-06-26T10:43:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T03:43:46","slug":"mozambique-to-build-two-hydropower-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-to-build-two-hydropower-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique to build two hydropower plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo &#8211; Mozambique has approved a $1.8bn plan to build two hydropower plants to meet growing energy demand in the central province of Tete, home to some of the world&#8217;s largest untapped coal reserves, a government minister said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Unlisted Brazilian engineering group ATP Engenharia Ltda won a $1.2bn contract to build a 600 megawatt (MW) hydropower plant and another $600m to construct a 215 MW hydropower project, fisheries minister Victor Borges said.<\/p>\n<p>The power will be sold domestically and to the rest of southern Africa. Mozambique already exports power to neighbours Zimbabwe and South Africa, which are struggling to meet demand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mozambique News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Mozambique-to-build-two-hydropower-plants-20140625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo &#8211; Mozambique has approved a $1.8bn plan to build two hydropower plants to meet growing energy demand in the central province of Tete, home to some of the world&#8217;s largest untapped coal reserves, a government minister said on Wednesday. Unlisted Brazilian engineering group ATP Engenharia Ltda won a $1.2bn contract to build a 600 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,1692,1690,683,4704,682,257,1691,254,4693],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atp-engenharia-ltda","tag-hydropower-plants","tag-maputo","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-province-of-tete","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}