Africa’s largest hydro dam project, the\u00a06,450\u00a0MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), is 66 percent complete.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bizuneh\u00a0Tolcha, Director of Public Relations and Communications Directorate at the Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE), said on Saturday the construction of the hydro project is going well and is expected to start partial test power generation soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

The project is a major part of a massive energy infrastructure project the Ethiopian government is undertaking which aims to see the country’s power generation capacity increase from the current\u00a04,280\u00a0MW to\u00a017,300\u00a0MW by 2020, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ethiopian government has embarked on massive energy projects across the country with a view to succeeding in its plans to make the East African country a light industry hub in Africa and a\u00a0middle-income\u00a0economy by 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>GERD, whose construction started in April 2011, is being built at a cost of\u00a04.7\u00a0billion\u00a0U.S. dollars, fully financed from domestic resources and is expected to have a reservoir with a total of 74 billion cubic meters of water upon completion.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hydro dam, which is being built on Blue Nile river 40 km from Sudanese border, has been billed as a landmark project signalling Ethiopia’s renaissance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Already, a high voltage electric transmission line built by State Grid of China Electric Power Equipment and Technology Co. Ltd (SGCC) at a cost of 1 billion dollars has been inaugurated, waiting for\u00a0GERD’s total commissioning to be operational.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Xinhua<\/p>\n

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