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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.