Ethiopia, China sign agreements for dams, wind farms
September 23, 2009 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopia electricity company this week has signed contracts with three Chinese firms to develop hydro-electric projects and a preliminary deal to construct wind power farms.
Ethiopia plans to construct at least six new dams as a part of a 12 billion-dollar plan over 25 years to improve the power network.
According to agreements signed on Wednesday, two Chinese firms will construct two dams to increase Ethiopia’s hydropower generating capabilities.
China Gezhouba Group Company (CGGC) will build the $408 million Genale Dawa 3 hydropower project in southern Ethiopia with the capacity to generate 254 MW of power, he said.
Sinohydro Corporation had also inked a deal to construct the $555 million Chemoga Yeda hydropower project that will be made up of five dams on five rivers.
The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation further signed with the HydroChina Company a third agreement to build wind power projects in the Adama and Mesobo Harena areas. Theproject will be funded by the Chinese government.
Ethiopia is building five hydropower dam projects, some funded by the World Bank. Addis Ababa plans to export powers to neighboring countries like Kenya, Sudan and Djibouti.
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DASODIKO
Ethiopia, China sign agreements for dams, wind farms
Haaa, haaaaaaaaaaaa, China is only behind its interests to feed 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 of its population. They don’t care of NCP or Egypt. Now NCP Sudan Northern Arabs will you revenge for your masters Egyptians.
We Sudanese Africans will stand with our brothers and sisters in Ethiopia in case of any war on water. Our water is better to go to Chad and other African brother than rather than to Arabs.
mohammed osman
Ethiopia, China sign agreements for dams, wind farms
whens will this ethiobia peoples stop flooding northsudan lands like savages,we the Arabs of northsudan is sick of your dirty ethiobian coming to sudan alls time. ethiopian only come to clean our houses and wash our woman here in the khortoum.i have two eritrean woman they clean my house and is wash my underwears with my jalabia for just $5 you savages.