Chitima power station — Mozambique

Chitima power station is a 600 MW coal power station in Tete, Mozambique. It ranks #6 of 22 Mozambique power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 0.0% of Mozambique's electricity; the national grid averages 129 gCO₂/kWh (83.4% low-carbon) (2024).

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_chitima_mozam.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 600 MW, Chitima power station is around the median coal plant in Mozambique (570 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Shelved” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #4 largest coal power plant of 9 in Mozambique by capacity.

Mozambique has 9 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 6,320 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Jindal Tete power station · Coal · 150 MW · Tete
• Ncondezi power station · Coal · 1,800 MW · Tete
• Cahora Bassa · Hydro · 2,075 MW · Tete
• Benga power station (ICVL) · Coal · 1,700 MW · Tete
• Benga power station (Kibo Energy) · Coal · 300 MW · Tete
• Tete power station · Coal · 700 MW · Tete

Location

Coordinates -15.763003, 32.875138 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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