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Once completed, the hydroelectric dam will be the second-largest dam in Ethiopia after the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) generate up to 6,460 Giga watt-hours (GWh) of electricity, while counterbalancing approximately one million tonnes (Mt) of CO 2 annually. [1] [6] It has 201 meters height and 1012 meters length. On 28 September 2023 ...
On 15 April 2011, the Council of Ministers renamed it Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. [25] Ethiopia has a potential for about 45 GW of hydropower. [26] The dam is being funded by government bonds and private donations. It was slated for completion in July 2017. [19] The potential impacts of the dam have been the source of severe regional ...
The latest talks over the mega dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile River’s main tributary have broken up without an agreement. Ethiopia’s chief negotiator, Seleshi Bekele, said the ...
It is not known exactly to what extent dams in Ethiopia would reduce the flow of water to Sudan and Ethiopia. Assuming an evaporation rate of 1 meter per year, an irrigated area of 200,000 hectares and a combined reservoir area of 1,000 km2, the flow of the Nile could be reduced by 3 billion cubic meters per year, equivalent to about 5 percent ...
Ethiopia and Egypt said the latest round of talks over a huge, highly contentious hydroelectric dam Ethiopia has built on the Nile's main tributary again ended with no deal. Egypt's Ministry of ...
Part of Ethiopia's plan of universal electrification access by 2025: Construction began: March 2011: Opening date: 2020: Construction cost: £352.7 million ($451 million) Owner(s) Ethiopian Electric Power: Dam and spillways; Type of dam: Gravity dam: Impounds: Ganale Doria River: Length: 110: Width (crest) 456: Dam volume: 3.22 million ...
Egypt is concerned that Ethiopia is using water from the Nile to fill its giant Renaissance dam.
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopian authorities are probing missing funds a military contractor already accused of graft was meant to spend on a showpiece dam on a Nile tributary that’s raised tensions ...