Early Warning System

Regions

Africa

Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.

Countries

Mozambique

Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.

Specific Location

Temane, Inhambane Province

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Financial Institutions

US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.

Project Status

Approved

Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.

Bank Risk Rating

Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."

Borrower

Globeleq Africa Limited

A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.

Sectors

Energy
Technical Cooperation

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Investment Type(s)

Advisory Services

The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.

Investment Amount (USD)

$ 5.00 million

Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.

Project Cost (USD)

$ 52.44 million

Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.

Campaign Documents

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Primary Source

Original disclosure @ DFC website

Updated in EWS Aug 19, 2025

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Project Description

If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

As stated on the project disclosure document, DFC will provide a pre-investment Technical Assistance (TA) grant to develop the Temane Expansion Power Plant with a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) solution for potential DFC debt financing over a period of approximately 12 months. TA activities will fund a portion of the development budget with a view to reaching financial close.

The initial Central Terminal Temane (“CTT”) project is a 450MW combined cycle unabated gas fired power facility that reached Financial Close on 8 December 2021 and is currently in construction with commercial operations expected in 2025. The sponsor is proposing an expansion of the facility (“Temane Expansion”). The Temane Expansion project will be an additional ~ 450MW combined cycle gas turbine facility, which will double the generation capacity of the co-located CTT. The Temane Expansion facility will utilize a CCS solution by making use of saline aquifers or depleted gas reservoirs in the adjacent Temane area. The transmission component for the power generated from the plant will enable the connection of Mozambique’s southern transmission system to its central and northern systems.

The TA will enable funding for early-stage activities for the Temane Expansion project across the full value chain to de-risk the development that will include confirming technical design aspects, obtaining feasibility level cost estimates, identifying key risk and mitigation options, and defining appropriate commercial structures and regulatory framework supportive of successful project implementation. The TA package will be split between the CCS development scope as well as selected early-stage value chain activities related to power plant, transmission solution and gas supply arrangements to manage the project risk.

Investment Description

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US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

Debt financing of the US$652.3 million project is being provided by IFC, together with its “B” loan participants FMO and Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (together US$253.5 million), US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) (approximately US$191.5 million) and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund) (US$50 million). The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has provided up to $251.3 million in political risk insurance to private sector equity investors.

Private Actor Relationship

A Private Actor is a non-governmental body or entity that is the borrower or client of a development project, which can include corporations, private equity and banks. This describes the private actors and their roles in relation to the project, when private actor information is disclosed or has been further researched.

CTT is 85% owned by Mozambique Power Invest (MPI) and 15% by Sasol Africa. MPI is owned by Globeleq (76%) and Electricidade de Moçambique (24%).

This power project was originally owned by EDM of Mozambique and Sasol New Energy Holdings of South Africa. In December 2020, the owner/developers brought on Globeleq and eleQtra. The consortium jointly formed a special purpose vehicle company to develop this power station, which they named Temane Energy Consortium (TEC).

Private Actors Description

As stated by Bloomberg, Globeleq Africa Limited is an indepedent power produced that provides power generation services. The Company owns and operates natural gas, solar, wind, and fuel oil power plants. British International Investment took control of the company (70 per cent) in 2015 alongside Norfund (30%).

Private Actor 1	Private Actor 1 Role	Private Actor 1 Sector	Relation	Private Actor 2	Private Actor 2 Role	Private Actor 2 Sector
British International Investment Plc	Investor	Finance	owns	Globeleq Africa Holdings Limited	Client	Energy
Norfund	Investor	Finance	owns	Globeleq Africa Limited	Client	Energy

Contact Information

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No project contacts provided at the time of disclosure.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

Unlike many other development finance institutions, DFC does not currently have an access to information policy.

Under the United States Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), DFC is obliged to respond to reasonably formulated requests for Agency records. However, DFC may apply exemptions from release to certain types of information and may charge fees in responding to requests. DFC has a designated FOIA officer who is trained in how to respond to requests and implement the law. You can learn more about filing a FOIA request at: https://www.dfc.gov/foia

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF THE UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION (DFC)

The Office of Accountability is an independent office that addresses complaints about environmental or social issues related to DFC-supported projects. The office provides communities an opportunity to have concerns independently reviewed and addressed. If you submit a complaint to the Office of Accountability, it may assist you by either seeking to address your problems by facilitating a problem solving dialogue between you and those implementing the project and/or investigating whether the DFC complied with its policies to prevent environmental, social, human rights, and labor harms.

You can find more information about the Office of Accountability at: https://www.dfc.gov/who-we-are/office-accountability