Posts Tagged ‘EEPC’

Ethiopia and Djibouti to Sign Electricity Export Agreement Today

October 5 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Economy, Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , ,

Signing the agreement will make the electricity export trial period permanent A high-level delegation from the government and the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO) is expected to travel to Djibiouti to sign an agreement on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 that will make electricity export to Djibiouti, operating on a trial basis for the past few... Read more

Ethiopia says plans to build two more Nile dams

September 9 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Economy, Egypt, Ethiopia, News, Nile, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

(Reuters) – Ethiopia has announced plans to construct two dams along its share of the Nile, six months after embarking on a 5,250 MW power plant that rankled Egypt over concerns it might affect the flow of the river. The Horn of Africa nation aims to produce 20,000 megawatts (MW) of power within the next 10 years,... Read more

General Electric has plans to invest in Ethiopia

August 19 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Economy, Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized, United States Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

General Electric Plans Africa Investment General Electric (NYSE:GE), the multinational conglomerate corporation, is getting ready to invest in Ethiopia. General Electric (NYSE:GE)’s delegates visited Ethiopia to hold talks with the Ethiopian Electric and Power Corporation (EEPCo) on renewable energy investment projects in the country. General Electric (NYSE:GE) hopes to provide the finance by itself for the investment projects. Mekuria Lemma, EEPCo’s Corporate Planning Head,... Read more

Ethiopia: Bosnian company energoinvest wins $45mn power transmission deal

July 22 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Economy, Ethiopia, News, Technology, Uncategorized, World Tags: , , , , , , ,

APA-(Addis Ababa)  Ethiopia and an energy giant in Bosnia have agreed a $45 million power transmission line deal, the Ethiopian Electric and Power Corporation (EEPCo) said on Thursday. The deal was struck this week between Energoinvest, Bosnia’s largest engineering group and the EEPCo alhough a formal signing ceremony will be held next week in Addis Ababa. Under the... Read more

Ethiopia : Electric price to increase shortly Water tariff increased 300 percent

January 11 | Posted by ocean | Economy, Ethiopia, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , ,

By Groum Abate : Capitalethiopia

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The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) is considering increasing the electric tariff in the next couple of months after getting a feedback from its officers, who departed to different areas... Read more

EEPCo gets high-voltage mobile substation

January 8 | Posted by ocean | Economy, Ethiopia, News, Technology, Uncategorized Tags: , , , ,

Reporter: By Hayal Alemayehu A high-voltage mobile substation purchased by Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo), the first of its type, was delivered here on Tuesday. The mobile substation, which allows EEPCo to renew or substitute outdated substations in the country without interrupting the electric supply from those stations by temporarily replacing them with the... Read more

Ethiopia Gets $224.3 Million Funding for Power Lines

December 23 | Posted by ocean | Economy, Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , ,

Ethiopia secured $224.3 million from the African Development Bank to fund the construction of four electricity transmission lines to improve its own power supply and help development in neighboring countries, the lender said. Additional transmission capacity is “critical and timely” for Ethiopia’s industrial development, said Lamin Barrow, the AFDB’s resident representative, by phone today from the capital, Addis Ababa. The lines... Read more

GILGEL GIBE II SET TO RESUME PRODUCTION IN DAYS

December 5 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , ,

Gilgel Gibe II, the hydro power plant which collapsed last February due to unforeseen accident only weeks after its official inauguration, is set to resume production in days. The maintenance work of the tunnel is already completed while the contractor, the same company which built the plant – the Italian-based Salini Construction – is undertaking clearance works, a senior official... Read more

Ethiopia’s first wind power farm will be start in Tigray

November 4 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News Tags: ,

The first wind turbine tower of the first wind farm project in Ethiopia has been erected in Ashegoda, some thirty kilometer from Mekelle, the capital city of the Tigray Regional State. The 120 megawatt of green sustainable energy is scheduled to be completed in February 2013, and the first phase of the project, which is 30 megawatt... Read more

French company eyes EEPCo’s wind projects

July 11 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , ,

Vergnet, the sole wind turbine manufacturer in France, is eyeing the Ethiopian Electricity and Power Corporation’s (EEPCo) wind farm projects over the coming ten years, according to Marc Vergnet, president and owner of the company. The company is currently undertaking the Ashegoda wind farm project in Tigray. Projected to produce some 120MW which will enter the national power grid, the... Read more

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