Sudan interconnection completed
Issue 226
- 01 Mar 2012
| 1 minute read
The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has announced it has completed construction of a 296km, 230kV power transmission line between Ethiopia and Sudan (AE 224/4). The line connects the Ethiopian towns of Bahir-Dar and Metemma with the Sudanese border town of Gedaref, and the power grid of Sudan. The line, constructed with $41m of funding from the World Bank, will transmit an initial 100MW of electricity from Ethiopia.
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