Photo: http://africanarguments.orgArtist's impression of the Renaissance Dam, under construction on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) power generation capacity has been upgraded to 6,450 MW. However, due to the upgrading made on the power plant, its generation capacity uplifted to 6,000 MW from 5,250 MW. The Minister added that activities are being undertaken to enable the dam generate 750 MW in the near future. "Construction of power receiver and transmission stations as well as the installation of power transmission lines has been fully completed.

Source: Ethiopian News February 28, 2017 07:07 UTC