High-quality satellite imagery from Al Jazeera Network’s (SANAD) surveillance and verification division showed Ethiopia’s preparations to start generating electricity from the Renaissance dam’s low turbines. The following picture, taken on December 3, shows the completion of the retaining wall before the dam’s lower turbines exit. Satellite images show the start of power generation from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Sanath Agency)’s low turbines. The following figure shows the construction and equipment work in the waterway holes for the turbines that generate electricity with the lower turbines. Earlier, Ethiopia’s Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy Celishi Beckley said power generation using Renaissance dam turbines would be in the first months of the new Ethiopian year, which began on September 13 last year.

Source: Ethiopian News December 09, 2021 04:26 UTC