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Energy Access Project
Ethiopia
Borrower | Ethiopia |
Financing Type | Public Sector |
Instrument | Project Loan |
Focus Area | Energy |
Approved | 14.12.2010 |
Signed | 23.02.2011 |
Status | Completed |
Loan Administrator | OPEC Fund |
Executing Agency | EEPCo |
Co-financiers | IDA, Gov't of Japan, Government |
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 20.00 |
Total Project Cost (US$m) | 245.00 |
This project aims at enhancing Ethiopia’s socioeconomic growth by expanding the country’s national grid and providing electricity to some 70,000 rural households. Activities will include:
- upgrading and rehabilitation of sub-stations;
- upgrading of distribution systems in Addis Ababa and seven cities ;
- provision of electrical connections for about 50 rural towns/villages;
- installation of street lighting in villages;
- distribution of one million Compact Fluorescent lamps to customers in the villages electrified under the project, as well as those already connected to the grid;
- drilling of four experimental geothermal wells in the Aluto Langano geothermal field; and
- institutional capacity building.