The commissioning of the Temane Thermal Power Plant (CCT), located in the Inhassoro district of Inhambane province, will reduce cooking gas imports by 70% from 2024, according to the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Carlos Zacarias.

"Everything is being done so that this project will also be ready by 2024," with a projection to "produce around 30,000 tons of cooking gas, which will reduce import levels by around 70%," he said.

Cooking gas will be one of the products of another plant being built by the South African multinational Sasol, as part of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) project, writes the Toad.

Cooking gas (technically called Liquefied Petroleum Gas) will be a fraction of the 23 million gigajoules projected by the PSA, according to data from Sasol.

Priscillah Mabelane, vice-president of Sasol, told journalists that the PSA is budgeted at more than 700 million dollars.

A significant portion of the amount to be produced by the PSA project will go to CTT, which will generate 450 megawatts of electricity, making it the largest gas-fired power plant in Mozambique.

"One particular point we wanted to emphasize about CTT is that it will produce 450 megawatts," which will be supplied "to the country and, of course, to other customers," said Carlos Zacarias, after visiting the developments.

CTT is budgeted at 650 million dollars according to data from Globeleq, the multinational with a majority stake in the infrastructure.