Sumitomo Corporation and IHI Corporation have signed with Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) an EPC contract for a gas-fired combined cycle power plant (generation capacity: 100MW; hereinafter, the Power Plant) in Temane, Inhambane Province, Mozambique. The Power Plant's proposed construction site is located about 700km northeast of the capital city of Maputo. With a generating capacity of 100MW, the Power Plant is expected to meet about 10% of Mozambique's domestic power demand.

Sumitomo Corporation as consortium leader will serve as the negotiating and coordinating liaison with EDM, while IHI together with its affiliate company Jurong Engineering Limited will supply the main equipment for the Power Plant (gas turbines and generators), carry out civil engineering, equipment installation, and electrical engineering work onsite, and coordinate the construction of the Power Plant as a whole, with the aim of starting construction in 2018 and completing it in 2021.