Tedzani Hydroelectric Power Station
Tedzani Hydroelectric Power Station is a group of four hydroelectric plants on the Shire River in Malawi. Located in Chikwawa District in the Southern Region, the complex is owned by Electricity Generation Company Malawi Limited (Egenco). The plants share some infrastructure and are built on a gravity dam.
Together, the Tedzani plants have an installed capacity of 111.7 MW and generate about 500 GWh of electricity each year.
Development timeline:
- Tedzani I (online 1973): two turbines, 10 MW each (total 20 MW).
- Tedzani II (online 1977): two units of 10 MW each (total 20 MW).
- Tedzani III (online 1996): two generators of 26.35 MW each (total 52.7 MW).
- Tedzani IV (commissioned May 2021): 19 MW. It was funded with about US$56.8 million—US$52 million as a grant from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency and US$4.8 million in government equity.
Location details: the complex lies on the Shire River, downstream of the Nkhula B Hydroelectric Power Station, about 65 km northwest of Blantyre.
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