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  1. Ethiopia downplays impact of global opinion on its hydro plans

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    Mon, 10 Oct 2011

    are unlikely to hinder financing for Ethiopia ’s hydro programme, said Prime Minister ..... he said, according to Bloomberg. Ethiopia said last month it planned to offer ..... domestically in the past six months. Ethiopia started building the hydro plant in April

  2. Ethiopia arranges $200m funding for Great Renaissance Dam

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    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    addition to the $200m a number of organisations have also invested. The dam will flood 1680 km³ of forest in northwest Ethiopia , near the Sudan border, creating a reservoir nearly twice the size of Lake Tana, the country’s largest natural lake

  1. Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation signs 14 transmission contracts

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    Wed, 14 Sep 2011

    Ethiopia Electric Power Corporation ( EEPCo ) has ..... about $330m with foreign firms to improve Ethiopia ’s power transmission, said EEPCO ..... and aerial transmission lines linking Ethiopia with neighbouring countries. Indian

  2. Work starts on Chinese built Ethiopian hyropower project

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    Tue, 13 Aug 2002

    begun construction of a $224m hydroelectric power project in Ethiopia , state media reported. The Chinese company that helped build ..... largest hydroelectric project, a dam on a Nile tributary in Ethiopia , ahead of bidders from Germany, Italy and Japan. The company

  3. News Digest

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    Tue, 1 May 2001

    International International: Sudan and Ethiopia have created a joint committee to speed up the proposed interconnection of their power grids. A recent study has revealed that

  4. Intenational World News

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    Sat, 1 May 2004

    African Development Bank has approved a $3.89m grant to finance a study on power trading and interconnection between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, all of which share the River Nile. The grant will cover 90 per cent of the cost of the study which will investigate

  5. Powering up the Nile Basin’s electricity capacity

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    Tue, 1 Jun 2010

    Republic of Congo (DR Congo), Egypt, Ethiopia , Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and ..... regional droughts. Various countries ( Ethiopia , Uganda and to a lesser extent, Kenya ..... untapped hydro resources, particularly in Ethiopia , Tanzania, Uganda with lesser resources

  6. China provide $123m loan for Tanzanian wind farm

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    Thu, 19 Apr 2012

    undertaken in sub-Saharan Africa. There are consistently strong winds along the top of the eastern Rift Valley, where the mountain plateau runs through East Africa, from Ethiopia down to Malawi and Mozambique. For more wind power news

  7. Sub-Saharan Africa hungers for power

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    Sat, 1 Oct 2011

    from the Zambezi, found the report. Ethiopia was given a hydro potential of 30 GW ..... constructed include the 1870 MW Gibe III in Ethiopia , which would be Africa's largest dam ..... upgraded lines. An interconnector with Ethiopia that will permit EEPCo to export up to

  8. INTERNATIONAL

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    Sat, 1 Oct 2011

    Corporation signs 14 transmission contracts Ethiopia Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo ..... 330m with foreign firms to improve Ethiopia 's power transmission, said EEPCO ..... and aerial transmission lines linking Ethiopia with neighbouring countries. Indian