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Sudan, Ethiopia to link electricity networks in 2008

02/26/07

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Sudan, Ethiopia to link electricity networks in 2008

Sudan, Ethiopia to link electricity networks in 2008

By Groum Abate

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The project that is expected to cost 61 million dollars for the 321 kilometer long electricity network between Sudan and Ethiopia is expected to be finalized in 2008.
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A meeting due to progress in Sudan with officials of the two electric suppliers would decide the amount of electricity to be exported by Ethiopia to Sudan. It is expected that Ethiopia would export up to 200 megawatts to Sudan.

The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) some months ago had also signed a contract with Electricite de Djibouti, Djibouti’s national electric company, for a power purchase agreement that would finalize negotiations that have been taking place for the last two years.
The construction of the electric networks is expected to be launched shortly. Ethiopia is constructing a number of power projects to step up its power supply.


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The African Development Bank (ADB ) has approved a loan of over 62 million dollars for the Ethio-Djibouti electric networking.

Installation work of electric lines between Ethiopia and Djibouti and Ethiopia and Sudan will be completed in the next three years, according to Sendeku.

The ADB has approved the loan required for the execution of the project following its endorsement of the feasibility study. The Djiboutian Electric Power Corporation has agreed to pay half of the total sum while the balance will be covered by EEPCo.

The project enables Ethiopia to sell electric power to neighboring countries, while the 283km electric line will enable Djibouti to get access to hydroelectric power for the first time.
A series of discussions were also held with Kenya to connect the two countries with power transmission lines.

Ethiopia is currently building three hydropower dams at a cost of 1.4 billion dollars and hopes to generate millions of dollars in foreign currency by exporting excess electricity to neighboring countries.
The dams - harnessing power from rivers cascading from Ethiopia’s rugged, towering mountains - are expected to produce a total of 1,155 Megawatts.
By 2010, the construction of the Tekeze hydro power dam with a capacity of 300 MW, Geligele Gibe II with a capacity of 420 MW and Tana Belesse hydro power dam with a capacity of 435 MW will be completed.

Ethiopia currently generates 800 MW from four hydropower plants for domestic consumption.

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msg Comment from: TPLF CADRE [Visitor]
looks like Ethopia is moving on up!!!!

PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 15:41

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msg Comment from: Selememaster [Visitor]
This is going to replace today's oil price as technology is replacing all systems in to Electrical. There are electrical cars you can recharge already. So you can see where we are going. You can imagine how this government is changing the country.

Long live EPRDF!
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 15:58

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msg Comment from: Mohammed Alli [Visitor]
Well done EPRDF,carry on there is no time to spend for useless diaspora propaganda." Yelibun yemifetsem bezum ayaweram " " moya belib new endilu ".
Water in Ethiopia will be crucial economic input as a " white petrolium " then Nile river will be name as " yager-lig, yenat Ethiopia sisay ".EPRDF has done many,many good things that are not air in to the media and it is a leadership which is highly devoted and commited to change the livelihood of the Ethiopians.We all know leave alon the rural areas even the big regional capitals like Gonder,Mekelle,Nekemt,Dessie,Awasa hadn't had enough lighting power and it was a near memoray for everyone. It is for their dark vision the CUDP leaders and their fellowers tried to scream in the big street of the USA and Europe.
Useless,near visionist,blind leaders and members you are able to realise the the countries development becouse it is well done and accomplished by EPRDF.
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 16:30

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msg Comment from: zeraf [Visitor]
hein ????? I was in addis few months ago. Light was going off sometimes. I think we should make sure lights stay on in the big cities before we start selling it to other countries
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 16:34

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msg Comment from: Abey [Visitor]
No matter what they say, Meles is one of the smartest and the most educated leader we ever have. This guy has all the connection with the westerns and the international community. Imagine what the U.S would do for you if you embaress the terrorists that dragged your soliders naked body around the city and at the same time fulfill your own goal. The amount of money thats flowing into Ethiopia, no one knows how significant it is... not to mention the help of the World Bank, EU, AU and other countries. So wherelse would the direction of the country be other than up. Long live Meles. Ethiopia First!!!!!!!

PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 16:42

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msg Comment from: elliil bey agare [Visitor]
thank god for epdrf.every day has its own good news.by the same token every day has a bitter news for our enemies and traitors like cud.
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 17:17

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msg Comment from: tafesse [Visitor]
Congratulation Mihret and EEPCo.

One thing though, please make sure we have some electricity enough to electrocute some ferral cats in Kaliti.
Why are things working for EPRDF and not for the very much demised CUD?

Long live EPRDF and EEPCo
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 17:18

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msg Comment from: ja [Visitor]
sweeeeeeet
see how meles operate by sharing electircty to sudan, djibouty and kenya he acomplish two things
1 he make peace with sudan djibouty
and kenya

2 he create economy for ethipia

there is no doubt meles is tryiing to change ethiopia.but i wish he could stop the ethnic divion it is literly killing our country.

how about eritrea? singapoor.

PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 17:40

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msg Comment from: Yeha [Visitor]
What can I say it is very very good news for Ethiopia. Now Ethiopia seems rich by selling power to the neighboring countries, next time Ethiopia will be even richer when the expected oil researh has been discovered. God bless Ethiopia.

As long as EPRDF is the government in this country, Ethiopia is going to be next to Japan before you know it.
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 18:01

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msg Comment from: Yeha [Visitor]
tafesse,TPLF CADRE,Abey,Mohammed Alli and of course my friend Selememaster 100% agree with you guys amen.

Although,I will be sad for the diaspora bozenies that this news isn't good for them at all.
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 18:08

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msg Comment from: Melaku_T [Visitor]
Why Woyane ? Desperas don’t wont good things on Ethiopia.
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 18:36

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msg Comment from: Yirgacheffeeይርጋጨፍ [Visitor]
If EPRDF ruled Africa, we would have had the greatest continent in the world! But the soon to become the gratest country in Africa [Ethiopia] will do just fine!
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 19:49

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msg Comment from: anbesaw [Visitor]
ETHIO IS MOVE'N FOR WARD THANK TO EPRDF.
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 20:08

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msg Comment from: Ernesto_Guevara [Visitor]
Look you all, this sweet dream coming tangeable has been planned since those good days of HIM's. Regardless, I give Meles a credit for proving this lame shots he have had to face from retired revolutionaries. Aren't those politician's that should be on trial for flattering Ethiopian's economy since most of them were part of overthrowing 3,000 yrs. of pride to a Nigerian looking illiterate communist? Anyways, bright future seems to be ahead of Us for now.
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 20:37

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msg Comment from: Fuser-Che/Ernesto_Guevara [Visitor]
Look you all, this sweet dream coming tangeable has been planned since those good days of HIM's. Regardless, I give Meles a credit for proving this lame shots he have had to face from retired revolutionaries. Aren't those politician's that should be on trial for flattering Ethiopian's economy since most of them were part of overthrowing 3,000 yrs. of pride to a Nigerian looking illiterate communist? Anyways, bright future seems to be ahead of Us for now.

[stop changing nicks! moderator]
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 20:41

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msg Comment from: The Python [Visitor]
We have to use Satenaw as one of the power carrier poles on the line from Tekeze station to Khartoum. What other service can he give other than disseminating ethnic hostility?

We bury both his legs up to his knees. We make sure that he will not fall due to a strong wind by pounding the base around his legs by a good concrete.

To prevent rusting of his body due to moisture, we are going to galvanize his body by chromium metal at 4000 degree Celsius but immediately we cool down him to -100 degree Celsius to make sure that the metal is well glued to his body.

Moreover, we make sure that he will not buckle due to hunger by allowing him to take some current from the electric wires as long he isn’t draining all the current from the lines. Power shouldn’t be off in the cities because of his consumption.

This suits him very well.

Che and Free will be employed as guards to protect the high tech. pole from bandits. Both are allowed to sip some current as long as they don't affect the intake of the “superpole“. No other food supply for them.

Lets hope that this 15lbs ant gets his dream come true as the first electric superpole.

regards,
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 21:41

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msg Comment from: The Horn [Visitor]
I smell Woyanes in this site. All woyane cadress came out of thier closet to support EPRDF. Intersesting!!
PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 23:31

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msg Comment from: ፊታውራሪ Free [Member]
Python for transformer,

you know how important a transformer is for a high voltage transmission of electricity for such a long distance, from Ethiopia to Sudan. Since you have been consuming too much teff, that of a five people qouta, i assume there is enough amount of iron in your body, though that assumption will be tested while flowing high amount of ac current through your body, and at the same time measuring the strength of the magnetic field created & calculating the magnetic flux produced as a result of that, i am sure the result will be positive and it will not reduce the standard of the transformer in any form, then half of your body will be the core of the primary winding while the rest will be used for the secondary winding. Even if i have no doubt there is enough amount of iron in your body, to reduce the lose of power in the form of heat and due to the induction of eddy current, there will be a process of melting and shaping, extracting & adding of iron from/to your body untill we meet the contemporary IEEE's qualities & standard of a transformer and ofcourse our design. Do they have good enough furnace and saw at mesfin engineering to excute those engineering tasks? lastly we have got a place where even woyanes can be useful for their country!
Designer, Free.

PermalinkPermalink 02/26/07 @ 23:48

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msg Comment from: meron [Visitor]
PM MELLES GOD BLESS U AND ETHIOPIA
absolutly u r correct.u have good mind
i hope the next three yrs ethiopia to be rich country.
long live to our PM
long live to ethiopia & ethiopian
PermalinkPermalink 02/27/07 @ 01:31

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msg Comment from: Choice [Visitor]
It reminds me of the News during the Mengistu time.

"Ethiopia, Libya to link Electricity
networks by 1989"

That is one of the cunniest nature of dictators designed to steal public attention from the reality.

Where is electric power to Armachoh, Tekil Dengay, Shewa Robit, Goma, Limu, Damot, Ayra Guliso, Becho? Menesibu, Welkayet Tegede? Debresina, Debre Libanos?

For 16 years Woyane has been busy in Tigray building this and that while destroying and neglecting the rest of the country.

This narrow tribalist government is addicted to lies and more lies are on the pipe line. Woyane will soon tell us "Ethiopia to manufature commercial Airliners by 2009". Of course after the electrification of Ethiopia and Sudan. Ha!Crap!

Choice
PermalinkPermalink 02/27/07 @ 04:55

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msg Comment from: merid [Visitor]
This is to choice and all alike get it out of your mind that tigray is privilaged because they are faced with similar hardship that all other ethiopians are faced with. I have been to tigray and seen it with my own eyes. Just because the prime minister is from here doesn't mean the nations wealth is traveling north. OK, don't speak of things that you have no knowledge off.
PermalinkPermalink 02/27/07 @ 05:16

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msg Comment from: Albi [Visitor]
Choice,
I was in Ethiopia in the summer of 2006. I went to Awassa, Demi Dollo, Bahir Dar, Lalibella, Axum, and Mekelle. I was surprised that Tigray has not developed as some people talked about. You would see some development here and there, but you don't compare it with Addis, Bahir Dar,and Oromia region. I have talked people in Axum that almost nothing has been built since Emperor Yohannes except now. By the way, you will find one of the most friendly, courteous, and respectful people in Tigray. I am telling you the truth, Choice. You should go and visit not only Addis, but the whole Ethiopia. Cheers.
PermalinkPermalink 02/27/07 @ 10:08

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msg Comment from: Satenaw [Visitor]

Dear Ethiopians,
This is what The Tigre “leboch” didn't want you to see.Look what the leba Tigres are doing on their desolate and “Chigaram” land at the expense of Ethiopians.

Dear Ethiopians,
Look what the leba Tigres are doing on their desolate and “Chigaram” land at the expense of Ethiopians. (this is what The Tigre “leboch” didn't want Us to see).

http://www.medrekforum.com/viewtopic.phpt=41998&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight



PermalinkPermalink 02/27/07 @ 15:01

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msg Comment from: Mohammed Alli [Visitor]
Dear brother,The phyton!
You were commenting with good humore but now I see one bad thing that your proposal of the quadricept animal Mr SATENAW as high tention carrier he is a carrier of some other thing not a light power. I am sure he will be soon become an asbestos so as to be the insulator of the current flow.
God bless to our eletric net-work.
PermalinkPermalink 02/27/07 @ 15:43

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msg Comment from: Yoman [Visitor]
Because of weyane cadres idiotic comments from the like of Chefee, don't hate Tigreans. Whether or not Tigray benefited from Melese economic policy, it wasn't the choice of the Tigrai people. The fact is because of the hate Melese & CO has for Amharas & Oromos most of the Development money is tunneled towards Tigrai. That is a fact. All this Zeraf from weyane cadres about the economic dev & projects is for nothing. Because: Most of the projects already Planned before EPRDF. EU, World Bank & IMF are financing the projects because of the Millennium Project goals. Despite of Weyane the economy is growing. If weyane opened up the economy, reformed land ownership, respected human rights, etc; we could achieve more economic development. Just good is not good enough. Our potential is very high!
PermalinkPermalink 02/27/07 @ 17:13

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msg Comment from: gimo [Visitor]
well done EEPCO, let us light up our homes first our pple need it!?
PermalinkPermalink 02/27/07 @ 17:57

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msg Comment from: d [Visitor]
STOP ETHNIC BAITING!!!!!!
This is good for ethiopia and be happy. Woyane is better then the other leaders but they still suck. Nevertheless i have been impressed by the commodities opening and this.
go ethiopias sons.....
PermalinkPermalink 02/27/07 @ 19:27

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msg Comment from: Tazzabe [Visitor]

This kinds of mainstream projects must be carred out ragardless of governmental changes.
PermalinkPermalink 02/27/07 @ 21:32

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msg Comment from: Choice [Visitor]
Merid & Albi

You must have been brain washed or you are brain washers altogether.

Who would better tell you the fact that Woyane dismantled and took numberless power generators from Gojjam, Gaondar and Semien Shewa when it first took power.

What about the money spent on the "development or Tigray" in the pretext of "Rehabilitating War-affected regions"?

What is "Mahibere Rediet Tigray" doing? Helping the Anuak people get clean water? Or the Gujji people have school or clinics.

Stop advocating tribalist dictators and stand up for the truth.

"Libika Zifeltwo neger N'Afka maatsew keitgebrelo"

Choice
PermalinkPermalink 03/01/07 @ 05:05

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msg Comment from: abera demeksa [Visitor]


What an electrifying news.Ha ha ha ha . Go on,Ethiopia!

Don't you love those "Woyanes"?

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