Ethiopian Electric Power and Hyosung Corporation signed a contract agreement to carry out Southern electricity grid expansion project. The agreement has signed by Ato Ashebir Balcha, CEO of Ethiopian Electric Power and Mr. Hyung Soo Yoo, representative of Hyosung Corporation. In the occasion, Ato Ashebir Balcha urges timely completion of Read more…
Ethiopian Electric Power Marketing and Business Development department announced that the power export for Kenya will be implemented in three phases. Ato Hiwot Eshetu, acting director for the department, disclosed that, the 25 years power purchase deal between Ethiopia and Kenya would realized in three phases. The power export would Read more…
Ethiopian Electric Power and French Development agency agreed to commence work on training center to be constructed in Bishoftu town. Wondossen Kassa (PhD), Director of human resource development, said that, capacity building training will start in 2015 Ethiopian fiscal year including completion of design for training center granted by French Read more…
The Ethio-Kenya electricity power purchase agreement negotiations were concluded yesterday evening. The agreement was signed by Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Electric Power, Engineer Ashbir Balcha and Managing Director of Kenya Electric Light and Power Company, Engineer Goferi Muli in the presence of the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Read more…
Ethiopian Electric Power (hereinafter called “Borrower”) has budget to be used for the Procurement of Plant Design, Manufacture, Supply, Test and Commissioning of; LOT-1: Plant Design, Manufacture, Supply, Test and Commissioning of 230/33 kV GSEZ Substation and LOT-2: Plant Design, Manufacture and Supply of Koka – Gelan TL LILO to Read more…
Ethiopia is striving to ensure access to power by its growing population. To this effect, the country has diversified the sources of power, i.e., wind, solar and geothermal. Some wind power has entered the national grid but there are initiations for feasibility studies for solar power in the different dryland Read more…
The generation operation office announced that EEP stepped a good progress in maintaining power units Which had been non functioned over many years. During 2014 Ethiopian fiscal Year performance evaluation, the office disclosed that it’s gained 36MW energy from Tis Abay II power unit maintained by its own force which Read more…
Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) earned more than 15 billion birr from domestic consumption and fiber optics (OPGW) lease # Marketing department of EEP disclosed that the company enjoyed more than 15.79 billion birr earned from domestic power supply as well as fiber optics lease. Ato Hiwot Eshetu, acting director of Read more…
Ethiopian Electric power (EEP) currently provides electricity to an estimated 2.13 million customers in Ethiopia. This represents only about 32% of the population who has access to electricity. Therefore, the country has one of the lowest levels of annual energy consumption per capital in the sub-Saharan Africa. Much of the Read more…
Maintenance work is underway to repair damaged OPGW lines in parts of eastern Amhara and Afar region that have been invaded by the TPLF, which has been declared a terrorist group by the House of Peoples’ Representatives. Ermias Gebremedhin, Manager of the Fiber Optics Operations and Maintenance Bureau in EEP, Read more…
