12/08/2022
Ethiopian Dam: Serving African right to Electric power!
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Ethiopia cellebrated the start of the 2nd turbine of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ( ).
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), President Sahilework Zewdie, and all other higher officials congratulated the Ethiopian people and friends of Ethiopia.
The second turbine of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam's (GERD) has started generating power.
Unit 9 of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has started generating power.
Unit 9 turbine, one of 13 turbines in the dam, can generate 270 megawatts of electricity at the current height of the dam and the amount of water it holds.
When the dam is operational at its full capacity, the turbine has the capacity to generate 375 megawatts of power.
The Ethiopian government is exerting efforts to the generation of additional electric power from Ethiopian rivers since 60% of Ethiopians do not have access to electricity.
