From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Thu Jul 28 2005 - 14:50:29 EDT
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Ethiopia Will Suspend Power Exports to Neighbors, Reporter Says
Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia will suspend electricity exports to
neighboring Sudan and Djibouti while it deals with a local shortage
because of delays in completing new power projects, the Reporter said.
Ethiopia's state-run electricity utility, which produces between 700 and
800 megawatts of electricity, faces a 100- megawatt shortfall due to
growing demand and delays in the construction of new hydropower dams,
the Addis Ababa-based newspaper said, citing Energy Minister Alemayehu
Tegenu.
Construction of the Tekeze dam in northern Ethiopia, on a tributary of
the Blue Nile River, has been delayed because the ground on which it was
being built wasn't strong enough, the report said. A second hydropower
facility in southern Ethiopia has been delayed for over a year because a
boring machine digging a 26-kilometer (16-mile) tunnel has been stuck
underground, it said.
Ethiopia signed memorandums of understanding with Sudan and Djibouti to
export power and is completing a feasibility study to send power to
Kenya. The country plans to build as many as nine new dams over the next
10 years.
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