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Ethiopia Begins Rationing Electricity For Homes, Industries by Mrakeli: 10:42am On May 18, 2019 |
Ethiopia has started to ration electricity for domestic and industrial customers after a drop in water levels in hydroelectric dams led to a production deficit. Ethiopia’s minister for water and electricity Seleshi Bekele said that the drop in water levels at the country’s Gibe 3 dam led to a deficit of 476 megawatts (MW), more than a third of the country’s electricity generation of 1,400 MW. Ethiopia also suspended electricity exports to neighbouring Djibouti and Sudan, which earns the country 18 million dollars a year, the minister said. Under the rationing programme, which runs until July, domestic consumers will face blackouts for several hours each day, while cement and steel firms will have to operate fewer shifts due to the cuts, Seleshi said. Ethiopia’s 4 billion dollars dam project on the Nile river, which has been beset by construction delays and criticism from Egypt, is expected to start initial operations in December 2020. The project has caused problems with Egypt, which fears the dam will restrict Nile river waters coming down from Ethiopia’s highlands through the deserts of Sudan to the Egyptian fields and reservoirs. The planned 6,000-megawatt Grand Renaissance Dam is the centrepiece of Ethiopia’s bid to become Africa’s biggest power exporter. https://www.akelicious.net/2019/05/ethiopia-begins-rationing-electricity.html
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Re: Ethiopia Begins Rationing Electricity For Homes, Industries by Rhaspody(m): 11:13am On May 18, 2019 |
And we have river niger that we cannot use for anything meaningful |
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