Ethiopia’s Ministry of Finance has announced a tender for the construction of six solar plants with a combined capacity of 798 MW. The first, issued by state-owned power company Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) and won by Italian energy company Enel in October 2017, will bring online a 100 MW solar plant in Metehara, in Oromia, central Ethiopia. The second tender was issued by the EPP in October 2017 and intended the construction of two 125 MW solar facilities. The first and second tenders were part of the Scaling Solar scheme. The country has around 4.3 GW of installed power generation capacity, of which 3,810 MW is in the form of hydro installations, 324 MW wind, 7 MW geothermal and 143 MW of diesel.

Source: Ethiopian News January 18, 2019 08:28 UTC