The African Development Bank has approved $104 million in financing for a transmission project to improve Ethiopia’s electricity supply. The financing includes a $52m grant from the African Development Fund, the Bank Group’s concessional lending arm. Batchi Baldeh, the Bank’s Director of Power Systems Development, said the project would improve access to electricity by increasing the capacity of the power grid in eastern Ethiopia. New Africa partnership to address funding shortages for clean cookingThe project involves the construction of 157 kilometres of 400kV double-circuit transmission lines. Access to electricity in Africa an ongoing challengeAdesina highlighted limited access to electricity as a significant hurdle.

Source: Ethiopian News September 15, 2023 08:07 UTC