Ethiopia has announced plans to invest $40 billion in the construction of new renewable energy infrastructure over the next 10 years. Electricity will largely be generated from hydroelectric, wind, solar, and geothermal power facilities and will be exported to other East African countries.
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The research project “Catalyzing investment for energy access: Making the case for change” was conducted by Power for All and supported by Energise Africa’s scale up funding from P4G. The report examines Ethiopia’s access to electricity challenge, benchmarking the country’s power sector to six regional peers: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
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Abu Dhabi based renewable energy company, Masdar has signed an MoU with the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to explore the development of solar power projects across Ethiopia. As part of the agreement, a total solar power capacity of 500 MW is to be developed across the country along with related grid infrastructure.
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Siemens Gamesa has signed an agreement to supply 29 turbines of the SG 3.4-132 variety to the state-owned utility Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) for the 100 MW Assela project in Ethiopia. The project is expected to be commissioned in the first half of 2023. The project will generate about 300,000 MWh per year.
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Corbetti Geothermal PLC has announced the results of the first round of the call for tenders for the drilling of boreholes for its geothermal project in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. The project is being developed by a consortium formed by Berkeley Energy (BE), manager of the African Renewable Energy Fund (AREF), Reykjavik Geothermal (RG) and InfraCo Africa, a company of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG).
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The total installed electricity capacity from all energy sources in the East African Rift countries is about 20 GWe. The contribution of geothermal energy to this is about 900 MWe, with all the existing installed geothermal power plants located in Kenya and Ethiopia.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Green Fund has launched a call for tenders for the installation of 10 solar photovoltaic systems for its operations in three East African countries, namely Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. This project will result in solar power plants with capacities ranging from 60 kWp to 500 kWp, with a cumulative capacity of 1.8 MWp at all 10 sites.
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