{"id":57664,"date":"2022-02-20T09:40:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T14:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=57664"},"modified":"2022-02-20T09:40:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T14:40:52","slug":"grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam-begins-power-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/57664","title":{"rendered":"Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam begins power generation\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":su\" class=\"Ar Au Ao\">\n<div id=\":ra\" class=\"Am Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Message Body\">\n<p>The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has begun generating electricity with a single turbine starting from Sunday, February 20, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inaugurated the first power generation of the mega-dam which is regarded as the largest hydroelectric plant in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>One of the 13 turbines of the grand dam, with generating capacity of 375 megawatts of electricity commenced power generation on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to export our pollution-free power to Europe through Sudan and Egypt, Abiy said during the inaugural ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The $4.2-billion project is ultimately expected to produce 5150- megawatts of electricity, more than doubling Ethiopia&#8217;s current electric power output.<\/p>\n<p>The first power generation comes as Ethiopia&#8217;s downstream neighbors -Egypt and Sudan view the dam as a threat to reduce the volume of water reaching their territories.<\/p>\n<p>Addis Ababa claims the dam is essential for its electrification and development and will insignificantly impact the downstream countries.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has no intention to harm anyone else but to provide electricity to 60 percent of its needy population, Abiy said.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed said \u201cthe dam would benefit Egypt and Sudan and it will be the way forward for cooperation among us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From now on, there will be nothing that will stop Ethiopia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The east African nation had initially planned to generate around 6,500 megawatts of electricity from the dam but later reduced it to 5150 mega watts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has begun generating electricity with a single turbine starting from Sunday, February 20, 2022. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inaugurated the first power generation of the mega-dam which is regarded as the largest hydroelectric plant in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/57664\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":57665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GERD.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57666,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57664\/revisions\/57666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}