Ethiopia Powers Up Africa's Largest Dam as Tensions With Egypt, Sudan Rise
Bloomberg Televisionยท2025-10-05 05:00
Africa's largest hydropower project, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, has gone live. The plant, which took 14 years to build, at - get this - an estimated cost of almost US$5 billion, sits on the Blue Nile in Africa's second most populous nation. It's designed to generate just over 15,700 gigawatt hours annually.That's enough electricity to light up Ethiopia and send surplus power across East Africa. Now, for Addis Ababa, this is a national milestone, and yet its construction hasn't been withou ...