Tuesday, 10 January 2012
The Ethiopia-Sudan Transmission Line project will be finalized in the first quarter to 2012 at a cost of 41 million US dollars. The 230KV transmission line is expected to be 296KM long.
It is expected that Ethiopia will sell up to 100 MW of electricity to the Sudanese.
The World Bank financed the project with ENEGROINVEST constructing the transmission line and SUNIR International engaged as a substation contractor. European firms HIFABOY and FITCHER served as project consultants until the end of December 2010 and the Transmission and Engineering Office of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation taking over consulting and supervision as of 2011.
The transmission lines in Ethiopia have three sections: Bahir Dar-Gondar (137.2Km), Gondar-Shehedie (122Km) and Shehedie-Metema (37Km). The final section is to connect with a transmission line in Sudanese city of Gedaref.
The Ethio-Sudan Transmission Line Project is expected to further develop the East African Power Pool which encompasses power interconnection projects between Ethiopia-Kenya, Tanzania-Zambia-Kenya-Uganda and Ethiopia-Sudan-Egypt.
It is to be remembered that leaders from Ethiopia and Djibouti inaugurated the substation linking Djibouti to the Ethiopian power grid on Wednesday. It was described as a milestone in linking the economies of the two countries by Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
More than 90% of the project was financed by loans and grants from the African Development Bank (AfDB). The project is thought to be very crucial to Djibouti which generated energy from diesel generators.
The memorandum of understanding for power purchase agreement was signed in April 2008 but it took two years to finalize the 25-year agreement.
Source: Capital
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