BY REUTERS Ethiopia has started to ration electricity for domestic and industrial customers after a drop in water levels in hydroelectric dams led to a production deficit, the minister for water and electricity, Sileshe Getahun, said on Friday.
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The plant starts providing uninterrupted electric power supply after undergoing plant expansion program worth $98.6m. BY SHABAIT A project worth 98.6 million Dollars has been implemented to augment the electric power supply by 60%. The project that was implemented by the Chinese SFECO Company will upgrade the electric power supply by 46 mega watts.
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By African Intelligence, UNDERMINED by the incursion of the Ethiopian army into Kenyan territory in late May (at the Illeret locality, 15 km from the border), relations between Kenya and Ethiopia could deteriorate even further. The Kenyan government has decided to break the agreement signed with Ethiopia in 2012 under which Kenya undertook to import […]
Continue ReadingBy ESAT News, THE power outages and shortage in Addis Abeba is making the lives of many people difficult that many people are being forced to dump the dough they have prepared for bakery due to sudden power disruptions. The staff and vehicles of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation often get attacked by angry citizens, […]
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Eritrea’s challenges to energy security is related to its low national income, challenging physical terrain, and post-war infrastructural destruction. Despite all that, 35% of the Eritrean population has access to electricity. By comparison, figures across the East African region show Ethiopia at 23%, Kenya at 18%, Uganda at 8.5%, and Sudan at 36%. BY BERHANE […]
Continue ReadingBy African Intelligence, THE plan for economic integration devised by Djibouti and neighbouring Ethiopia could ultimately lead to a kind of political unification between the two countries. During the last few weeks, certain Ethiopian dignitaries have hinted at it and one of them even went so far as to utter “a single country with two chiefs”. […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, The Governments of Eritrea and Sudan will soon commence the construction of a 340Km, 220 KV double circuit power transmission line from Sudan to Eritrea. According to document released by COMESA, the $70M power Interconnector project will link Sudanese town Kessela with Eritrean towns of Tesseney, Barentu, Agordet, Keren and when feasible, to […]
Continue ReadingBy Reuters, The small African nation of Djibouti will invest $31 million in geothermal power plants to cut reliance on imported electricity from neighbouring Ethiopia, officials said. The country in the Horn of Africa has a population of less than a million people and peak demand of 70 megawatts of electricity, 65 percent of which […]
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