Ethiopia to Start Nile Power Generation Today

Date: 19 February 2022 - 22:16

News ID: ۱۰۰۱۹۴

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) -- Ethiopia will start generating power from its controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, government officials told AFP.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), set to be the largest hydroelectric project in Africa, has been at the centre of a regional dispute ever since Ethiopia broke ground in 2011. “Tomorrow will be the first energy generation of the dam,” an Ethiopian government official said on Saturday.