Country Tanzania Status Operational Primary fuel Natural Gas Construction began 2006 | Location Tegeta, Dar es Salaam Operator(s) TANESCO Owner TANESCO | |
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Commission date November 2009 (Natural Gas) Similar Kihansi Dam, Nyumba ya Mungu Dam, Mtera Dam, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria | ||
Tegeta Thermal Power Station is a Tanzania Electric Supply Company owned power plant. The project began in 2006 half funded by the Tanzanian Government and the other half by The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands under ORET/MILIEV program.
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The power-plant is located in Tageta, Dar es Salaam and has an installed capacity of 45 megawatts (60,000 hp) using Natural Gas as fuel. The power plant obtains Natural gas from the existing dar-es-salaam gas pipeline.
Operations
The Power plant operates on Natural gas bought from the national pipeline. ORCA Exploration Group Inc. was assigned the contract to provide the natural gas. Currently the government does not plan to expand this power plant due to limitations in the gas pipeline however TANESCO is expanding their gas generation capacity with their new Kinyerezi Power Plant.
Confusion
In 2014 there was a Tegeta escrow scandal, that involved the embezzlement of around $250 million and $400 million. However, this was not the power station that was involved in the scandal, it was the power plant operated by Independent Power Tanzania Limited.