Maturi power station

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Maturi power station is a cancelled power station in Maturi, Kyela, Mbeya, Tanzania.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Plant name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Maturi power station	Maturi, Kyela, Mbeya, Tanzania	-9.623, 33.875 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the power station.

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Project Details

Table 2: Unit-level details

Status	Fuel(s)	Capacity (MW)	Technology
cancelled	coal: unknown	200	unknown

Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details

Owner	Parent
Off Routes [100%]	Off Routes [100.0%]

Project-level coal details

• Coal source(s): Magamba project

Background

Maturi power station was a proposed 200 MW coal plant in Maturi listed in Table 1 of the African Affairs journal article "Competing energy narratives in Tanzania: Towards the political economy of coal" by Thabit Jacob. According to a note attached to the table, the information was based on "field visits and interviews with government officials in March–August 2016." The table states that Maturi had coal reserves of 50 million tonnes. The project was sponsored by Off Routes, a Tanzanian-UK company. There appears to be no other online reference to this project.

There have been no further development updates and the project is presumed to be shelved or cancelled.

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Additional data

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