Ethiopia: Substantial Advance for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
- January 11, 2019
- - 11:48 am
The Ethiopian Electric Power company signed on January 10 a $78 million agreement with Voith Hydro Shanghai for the installation and commissioning of six generators for the country’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The agreement represents a substantial advance in the development of the proposed 6,000 megawatt facility, whose electromechanical construction was largely stopped in 2018 by the Ethiopian government over domestic financial mismanagement and grossly insufficient technical expertise. While much of the dam’s concrete structural works have been completed by the Italian contractor Salini Impregilo, the Ethiopian government-owned Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC) held the far more complex electromechanical …
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