East Africa adds 9300MW electricity capacity in a decade
Ethiopia's GERD: Fully Operational East Africa, the fastest growing region in Sub-Saharan Africa, is stampeding over itself in launching mega power generation sources. These are the fruits of dogged investment in expanding Power generation capacity along with other infrastructure projects. In the past decade, the region has sunk nearly US$10 billion in green field power generation, adding more than 8000 MW to its level 10 years ago. Among the mega projects is Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, that cost a whopping US$5 billion and will generate 6 GW of power. Second was Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere Hydro Project which cost $2.9 billion (2GW), followed by Uganda’s Karuma dam which cost $1.7 billion (600MW). There are smaller ones such as Kenya’s Thwake multipurpose dam which cost 0.7 billion and Ol karia V geothermal station which cost 0.4 billion. All projects are green energy projects and all, with the exception of Thwake dam, are complete and operational. With the Comp...