{"id":2094,"date":"2011-05-17T17:34:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2011-05-17T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:34:16","slug":"benga-energy-mining-of-malawi-plans-400-million-coal-fired-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/17\/benga-energy-mining-of-malawi-plans-400-million-coal-fired-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Benga Energy &#038; Mining of Malawi Plans $400 Million Coal-Fired Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2095\" title=\"construction-plant-in-malawi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/construction-plant-in-malawi-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>Benga Energy and Mining, a closely- held Malawian company, plans to build a $400 million coal-fired power plant in the country\u2019s northern Karonga District, Benga Managing Director James Londomu Manda said.<\/p>\n<p>The company is doing a feasibility study on the costs of the project, Manda said by phone today from Blantyre, the commercial capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s envisioned that the Bengu power plant will generate between 200 megawatts and 250 megawatts of power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Electricity Supply Corp. of Malawi generates about 287 megawatts, while total demand is more than 300 megawatts, according to the state-owned power company.<\/p>\n<p>To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Latham in Durban, <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/south-africa\/\">South Africa<\/a> at  <a title=\"Send E-mail\" href=\"mailto:blatham@bloomberg.net\">blatham@bloomberg.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To contact the editor responsible for this story: Gordon Bell at  <a title=\"Send E-mail\" href=\"mailto:gbell16@bloomberg.net\">gbell16@bloomberg.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benga Energy and Mining, a closely- held Malawian company, plans to build a $400 million coal-fired power plant in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[559,560,561],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-benga","tag-energy","tag-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}