The Ethiopian government is launching one of Africa's most ambitious cooperation programmes with China to build several new power stations
Ethiopia has signed contracts with Chinese construction companies
to build two huge dams as part of a US$12 billion, 25-year Power
Sector Master Plan to harness the country's hydropower potential.
It is one of several deals in which China will finance and build
the facilities to allow Ethiopia to expand domestic power coverage
and to export power to its power-starved East African neighbours.
These deals mark the first time that the World Bank has been overtaken
as the major financier of hydropower development in Ethiopia.
It also shows the willingness of Chinese companies to invest in
sustainable energy technology in Africa through the building of
wind farms....
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