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Ethiopia - Tekeze Hydro Power Plant to officially open next week

11/02/09

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Ethiopia - Tekeze Hydro Power Plant to officially open next week

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Ethiopia - Tekeze Hydro Power Plant to officially open next week


By Groum Abate

Ethiopia's Tekeze Hydropower Plant, which is expected to curb the severe shortage of electricity in the country, is going to be officially opened next week on November 8.
Tekeze, whose 44 metre arch dam is the biggest of its kind in Africa, started production of 75 megawatts in mid-August as a test trial. The dam has four turbines each with a capacity of generating 75mw.

When fully operational, it is expected to add 300mw of much needed power to the national grid, increasing generating capacity to a total of 1,170mw. The current power demand in Ethiopia is 1600mw.

The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) signed the contract to construct Tekezze on June 7, 2002, with the Chinese National Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Corporation (CWHEC). The completion date was originally in 2007, but the project has been beset with unforeseen problems.
Tekezze is one of the three big projects EEPCo has undertaken in recent years, along with Gilgel Gibe II and Tana Beles.


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msg Comment from: Jemal1 [Visitor]
The current power demand in Ethiopia is 1600mw. Tekeze will add 300mw when fully operational so the total capacity of all powers generated in the country will be 1,170mw according to the report. There is still a deficit in power consumption but we are going to the World Bank to ask for $380 USD loan to export power to Kenya according to another report!
Does this make any sense? How about fulfilling the local consumption before exporting to any of neighboring countries? Our citizens have suffered a lot the last couple of years it is about time for EEPCO to give the priority to the locals!
PermalinkPermalink 11/02/09 @ 16:29

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msg Comment from: Extraterrestrial [Visitor]
Where is the diaspora ???



PermalinkPermalink 11/02/09 @ 17:03

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msg Comment from: wako [Visitor]
Cry babies, like you have never slept in one room with your goats, now you are complaining about power bla bla bla. Keep your mouth shut and watch history unfold. History is in the making. This is the beginning of democracy. People have to have light to read so as they dont become damn asses like you. That way we can understand what is all about democracy. Or if you choose you can keep crying and do sh**. Help your country by working hard not by talking loud.
PermalinkPermalink 11/02/09 @ 17:40

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msg Comment from: Jemal1 [Visitor]
wako [Visitor]
Most of us credit when credit is due and criticize when there are short coming unlike you who follow every thing like a herd of sheep heading to their slaughter!

All you want to hear is baaaaaaaaaaaa
PermalinkPermalink 11/02/09 @ 17:58

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msg Comment from: Mimi [Visitor]
go ethio go ethio go ethio ethio ethio.
PermalinkPermalink 11/02/09 @ 18:35

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msg Comment from: bGuroweshebaye aleqnata! [Visitor]
wako [Visitor]!!!!!!!!!
Do you hear me?
You made my day by scribbling the following: "Cry babies, like you have never slept in one room with your goats, ..."

I never complained about sleeping with my goats. I was complaining for the last 18+ years when you were slaughtering my goats one by one. Now all are dead.
Where were you sleeping while I was sleeping with my precious goats? Yes. I FORGOT IT. SORRY FOR THAT.YOU WERE SLEEPING WITH THOSE JACKALS "TO LIBERATE" ME. UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE JACKALS GOT YOU BEFORE YOU "LIBERATE" ME AND YOU HAVE TO COMPROMISE YOUR STAND.AMN'T I RIGHT? YOU WOULD TELL ME ABOUT IT WHEN YOU COME BACK.......
Isn't it too early to sing guroweshebaye?
Should you have the intelect, you wouldn't have written what you wrote. It seems that Your major enemy is your deficit in understanding the abc of economics.
You should have come up an idea that help us know how this so called project would bring major change in the lifes of the citizens.
Have you any idea about Nigeria, S. Africa...Saudi Arabia...?....
I wish the ethiopians great peace and prosperity.
PermalinkPermalink 11/02/09 @ 18:38

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msg Comment from: leehawma [Visitor]
love bieng it ethiopian
PermalinkPermalink 11/02/09 @ 20:34

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msg Comment from: lulu [Visitor]
bGuroweshebaye aleqnata
You should have come up an idea that help us know how this so called project would bring major change in the lifes of the citizens
what kind of question is this.what are you trying to say.did u finish elementary school.men,it doesn't take a genuis to see that infrastructures are the foundation for any economic growth.
PermalinkPermalink 11/02/09 @ 21:42

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msg Comment from: guest564 [Visitor]
wako ...man Afae kurit yibelilh ...well said man bravo ...no more no less!!! It is exciting to see your people think straight....rather than sit and cry like one month old baby.
PermalinkPermalink 11/02/09 @ 22:49

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msg Comment from: Yeha [Visitor]
This is not good news for the dead diaspora indeed. Yeha
PermalinkPermalink 11/02/09 @ 23:10

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msg Comment from: Yeha [Visitor]
Yes Tekeze is on the move indeed. What you gonna do diaspora you working hard day and night crying like a baby and we moving fast day by day to enhancing our country beautifully. Now Tekeze is on the move.Isn't the dam it self is woyane? thought so, that's what you kept telling us the since the project began construction some 6 years a go.

Well, don't worry dead head diaspora now we have a lots of job opening for you at Tekeze Hydro dam. But first you must ask Z-Mike. Because he is the chief engineer for new hired people like you diaspora.But be nice to him. He is very sensitive engineer. little bet gentle with him other wise your choice is moving fast to the summer vacation paradise of Kality.Tegbaben? Melkam sera.

Yeha
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 00:02

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msg Comment from: Yonas Bekele [Visitor]
Hmm, there will still be some deficit? I hope it is a misprint.
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 00:28

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msg Comment from: Tolossa [Visitor]
Yesterday it was Gibe II, today it is Tekeze and tomorrow, may be Tana Beles,Gibe III etc. Go EPRDF go!!!!!!!!! :D
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 02:01

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msg Comment from: amina [Visitor]
gentle me all this is about ethiopia, just we have extend our appreciation when it needs. we will have a lot to do but we have to also to give a credit to those which are been done so far. being a CUD or EPLF is some thing else, but Ethiopia is our mama, we don't have another mama. please take care of this Eritreans they are here with the very destructive agenda. let us walk a head together and we will have one day we will have a prosperous country. viva Ethiopia viva its people viva our government...
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 05:55

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msg Comment from: Truae [Visitor]
Yeha,
“The completion date was originally in 2007, but the project has been beset with unforeseen problems.”

Yeha the aheya, do you know what the above means? Chicken head, I will tell you the answer, that means a huge project cost overrun the Ethiopian people have to pay for years to come.

The project completion is delayed by close to three years; can you tell me how much the lost opportunity cost for not generating power in the last three year plus the additional cost incurred due to the construction delay? If you factor in the usual corruption allowance God knows where the final project cost going to end up! Probably tenfold than initially planned. I do call this indeed a failure, not success. Please don’t boast about this there are some Ethiopians who can see through such a sham.

The Chinese are indeed clever, they use the western technology and know how to design and construct critical infrastructure projects in their own country but experiment or hone their skills in a poor country like ours.

How much penalty the Chinese paid your dady Melese’ for the project delay? Probably zero. That is how you build friendship with communist China.

The bottom line is TPLF is composed of incompetent tyrants like you. These so called development projects are a precursor for your money laundering scheme.

I know it and you know it.

Yeha the Agazi bandit disappear!
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 06:32

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msg Comment from: smile [Visitor]
yes!
This is what we have been looking for it. it has become the right time for the poor people to build their nation. you on the .... please come and change your nation rather than longing for destablising your loved motherland. Do what a mother expects from her son.
what remains? alot of achivements will be visible soon enough. But it will only be seen for those who are willing to see it.

cheers!
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 07:31

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msg Comment from: Dereje [Visitor]
i am glad to see the completion of the tekeze as well as gibe2 project.
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 10:21

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msg Comment from: sami1 [Visitor]
Yeha :
It is good news for many Ethiopians, but we still want and dream for accountable government. If one government do one or two things right it does not mean we give them all the support and not question their leadership.

You and your freind want us to worship your god Meles but I am sorry he is just one man that could drop dead tomorrow, but sad thing he has no replacement in his party because he want to protect his power. EPDRF is clowning Meles for next 5 years and then Meles will be just sitting in the back room pulling strings.

We may not see Meles on TV but he will be under the desk holding the repasment bolls!

That is all about what you guys want!
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 12:05

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msg Comment from: Alula [Visitor]
Jamal1,

No worries...Gibe II is already producing 210 MW and will be fully operational by mid December with total capacity of 420MW. In February, 2010 Beles will come in with another 460 MW. Add these two to 1170MW and we will have more than 700MW extra just by next Spring.
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 12:37

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msg Comment from: ankobar [Visitor]
thanks epdrf
another bad news for the no good diaspora
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 12:39

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msg Comment from: Hayalom [Visitor]
wako,

don't think everybody grew up like you
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 12:53

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msg Comment from: AXSUMMITE KINGDOM [Visitor]
HI Ethiopians thise is good think to the whol ethiopia but I LOOK SOME OF THEM ARE NOT HAPPY STILL WHEN THEY WILL BE HAPPY?I THERE IS SOME ETHIOPIANS THEY UNDER STAND THE OPOSITE SIDE OF GOOD PLEASE STOPP TO GIVE COMMENT THOSE WHO OPPOSE ALL THE TIME IF IT IS GOOD SAY GOOD IF NOT SAY BAD NOT ALL THE TIME BAD BE HONEST PLEASE I THINK MOSTOF THEM IS FROM THE AMMARA REGIONS YOU CAN NOT WILL BY SAYING ALL THE TIME OPPOSING BELIVE IT THE GOOD DONE OUR GOVERMENTS THISE IS OPEN TO ALL ETHIOPIANS YOU CAN NOT CONFISE US .THISE IS CLEAR TO EVRY ONE WE CAN SEE IT .GOD BLESS ETHIOPUIA
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 14:45

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msg Comment from: Yohannes [Visitor]
Yeha,
They are not dead,they are waiting the next bad news to come from that nutty professor Al.
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 15:15

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msg Comment from: gergud [Visitor]
NAZRET That's what i want to hear from you not about,
enjera shawel's democracy.
to me democracy means food security,education,
developed ethiopia...........
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 16:14

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msg Comment from: EthioMAN [Visitor]
This is good. Very good. If we can just keep all to serve our need it would just be GREAT!!!
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 20:08

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msg Comment from: DeAfrique [Visitor]
AXUMITE,

Stop smoking ganja.

You sound bad and what's up with the cap loc(o)k?

PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 20:11

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msg Comment from: bGuroweshebaye aleqnata! [Visitor]
lulu [Visitor]!

Is the following written by you?:
"....did u finish elementary school.men,it doesn't take a genuis to see that infrastructures are the foundation for any economic growth."
If your answer is yes, you don't have the qualification to evaluate me and you are not one who can tell us anything about economic growth.
By the way, did you finish reading my post?
You're well trained in polemics. Should you know about the project and know anything about those countries I asked you wouldn't have gone crazy and lost your mind.
I'm sure next time you'll teach me about the so called global economics ..once one of your people were talking about it.Let's hear this "new" discipiline.
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 22:04

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msg Comment from: Andolem [Visitor]
Impressive, Probably Ethiopia will be the first African country will come from a dark continent.
PermalinkPermalink 11/03/09 @ 22:34

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msg Comment from: grum(visitor) [Visitor]
for those who think critically and rationally,the completion of Tekeze is a great leap ahead in supporting the ongoing growth.for those who r still intoxicated with yearning the old superiority complex and give a deaf ear and have a blind look at all sorts of changes,it can turn out to be a deep grief.i don't think this historical country be developed when there are this two antagonistic forces pulling each other to different direction. please do not trade using the false "belongingness".
PermalinkPermalink 11/04/09 @ 01:23

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msg Comment from: Addis [Visitor]
The village idiot Yeha,
diasporas, diasporas that is all you think of. Do you sleep at night without dreaming about diasporas?
Poor Yeha, did your GF left you with one of your next door diaspora. I don't blame her who will put up with an idiot like you.
PermalinkPermalink 11/04/09 @ 01:32

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msg Comment from: bex [Visitor]
we don't have to export our energy till our nation come out from darkness pls don't try it , we should safe millions tree a day around the country keep going wayane atleast till Ethiopian people recoganise you, make sure make history till you distroyed from the centre we never stop fighting you till all of you leave Oromia region Oromia shall free ! Down with Meles . We are westren region never give up to fighting you and distroy you .
PermalinkPermalink 11/04/09 @ 11:45

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msg Comment from: Melaku Alemayehu [Visitor]
You people. Please do not give a kick someone's opinion. This is a the begining of democracy.
This plant does not belong to any of the political paries, people....At the end of the day it is all about producing a power to our people so that our people forgets the loom in the night, forgets the smokes coming out the ddedily fume of Kuraz or Fanos etc. Students work their homeworks during the night time, people go to school in the night, Health stations operate well in the night etc, Prople eat their lunches while seeing every thing etc oh my people, forget politics
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