Ethiopia’s huge Nile dam delayed to 2022Possible defects in electro-mechanical work carried out by a now-disgraced state-owned company in Ethiopia will add four more years to the construction schedule of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a project official said yesterday. Metec was fired from the project in August over delays to the M&E work, following complaints from Salini Impregilo. It is Ethiopia’s most important project, and will transform the country’s energy profile by adding 6.4GW to its generating capacity. Only around 43% of Ethiopia’s 100 million citizens had access to electricity in 2016, according to World Bank data. Image: Work on the Renaissance dam is said to be 65% complete (Government of Ethiopia)See also:

Source: Ethiopian News December 14, 2018 12:56 UTC