Ethiopia Will Suspend Power Exports to Neighbors, Reporter Says


Medeshi Dec 30, 2008
Ethiopia Will Suspend Power Exports to Neighbors, Reporter Says
By Jason McLure
(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.

Qaar ka mid ah Ururada Bulshada Rayidka ah oo walaac ka muujiyay mudo dhaafka golayaasha deegaanada

Annaga oo ah Ururada Bulshada Rayidka ah ee Madaxa-banaan waxaanu si wayn uga walaacsanahay