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Comparison between construction of Kimwarer dam and hydropower project and Nyerere dam in Rufiji Hydropower project
Comparison between construction of Kimwarer dam and hydropower project and Nyerere dam in Rufiji Hydropower project
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METEC no longer contractor on 6,450-MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project
By Elizabeth Ingram | 8.27.18
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the government has cancelled the contract awarded to Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC) related to the 6,450-MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Multiple news agencies are reporting that METEC lost the contract due to numerous days in completion. The company was the contractor for the electromechanical and hydraulic steel structure work on the project.
METEC is run by the Ethiopian Defense Forces. Ahmed says the company is not able to complete the work. “We have handed over a complicated water dam project to people who have not seen a dam in their life and if we continue in that direction, the project may never see the light of day,” he said.
Salini Impregilo of Italy remains the main contractor for GERD.
Ethiopia will now award the contract to another company, although the replacement has not yet been named.
The government says GERD is 65% complete, but, “It is a project that was supposed to be completed within five years, but seven or eight years later not a single turbine is operational,” Ahmed said.
Ethiopian Electric Power is developing the project, which is expected to cost $4.8 billion.
GERD – on the Blue Nile River in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region — will feature a 510-foot-tall, 5,840-foot-long roller-compacted-concrete dam that will create a reservoir with a capacity of 70 km3. Two powerhouses will contain a total of 16 Francis turbine-generator units.
Just last month, GERD project manager Semegnew Bekele was found dead of a gunshot wound, and investigations are ongoing.
METEC no longer contractor on 6,450-MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the government has cancelled the contract awarded to Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC) related to the 6,450-MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
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French company to supply turbines for Nile hydro-dam
- GE Hydro France to be paid €53.9 million to manufacture, fix, test turbine generators, local media reportshome > Hydro, Middle East-Africa, General 02.01.2019 14:09
A French company has signed an agreement to accelerate the construction of Ethiopia’s multi-billion-dollar dam on the Nile, local media reported Wednesday.
GE Hydro France, engine and turbine manufacturing company, signed the deal with Ethiopian Electric Power on Monday.
The Ethiopian government earlier cancelled a contract with military-run conglomerate Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC) for causing delay in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project by failing to supply electromechanical equipment, including turbines.
Many METEC officials are now standing trial for high profile corruption.
“Based on the agreement, Hydro France will be paid €53.9 million to manufacture, fix and test turbine generators for five power generating units, including the two turbines that were designed to generate power ahead of full completion of the project,” said local broadcaster FANA.
According to FANA, discussions were concluded to sign agreements with Sino-hydro, a Chinese state-owned hydropower engineering and construction company, to speed up civil construction works of the dam.
A memorandum of understanding was also signed with China Gezhouba Group, a company which had a sub-contract agreement with METEC, to continue its work at the dam.
In a related development, a delegation led by engineer Abraham Belay, CEO of the Ethiopian Electric Power, visited to see the progress of the project.
On the occasion, Belay said that the government will provide everything necessary to expedite the construction of the dam.
By Addis Getachew in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- GE Hydro France to be paid €53.9 million to manufacture, fix, test turbine generators, local media reports - Anadolu Agency
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Milestone as Tanzania-Zambia electricity project team gets down to work
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26 2020
Overhead electric power transmission lines for the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco). PHOTO | AFP
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- TAZA seeks to allow for regional power trade between the Southern African Power Pool and the nascent Eastern Africa Power Pool and increase power supply to underserved areas in both countries.
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Tanzania-Zambia Electricity Transmission Initiative that seeks to enable the two neighbouring power pools, the Eastern Africa Power Pool (EAPP) and the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP), to link up for improved inter-regional trade has begun its groundwork.
A statement by the implementers, Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) Managing Director Tito Mwinuka seen by The EastAfrican last week laid out preliminary priority areas before it fully takes off next year.
This includes ensuring gender balance in all job opportunities in the World Bank-funded project.
“The consulting services aiming to develop Gender Action Plan for Tanzania-Zambia Interconnector (TAZA) project based on the draft developed by Tanesco to target increased number of female as part of recruitment, leadership and mentorship programme designed under the project,” the statement partly reads.
The groundwork will include obtaining consultancy services to support planning, co-ordination and control of procurement “from its (project) start to completion.”
In 2018, the World Bank approved an International Development Association credit of $455m for the project.
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Transmission corridor
TAZA seeks to allow for regional power trade between the Southern African Power Pool and the nascent Eastern Africa Power Pool and increase power supply to underserved areas in both countries. The interconnector is the final segment of the Ethiopia-Kenya-Tanzania-Zambia regional transmission corridor that is being developed in phases.Upon completion, it will increase power transmission capacity to Tanzania’s southern regions of Lindi, Mtwara, Mbeya, Iringa, Ruvuma and neighbouring Katavi.
Its four components are: Construction of a 620km long 400kV double circuit transmission lines, from Iringa to Sumbawanga to link the Tanzanian north-west grid to the interconnector with Zambia; improvement of Tanesco’s transmission system readiness for interconnection and corporate commercial management to meet regional energy requirements.
Integration of the SAPP and EAPP emphasises power system stability, operational support services, frequency synchronisation, tie-line control, protection, metering, and other technical standards. Overall, the initiative will re-equip Tanzania’s generation/transmission system infrastructure and synchronise with the EAPP and SAPP power pools.
Milestone as Tanzania-Zambia electricity project team gets down to work
It seeks to increase power supply to underserved areas in both countries.
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Tanzania: African Development Bank approves $120 million loan to build Malagarasi Hydropower Project
26-Nov-2020
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank have approved a $120 million loan to fund the construction of a 50 MW hydropower plant in Western Tanzania that will provide reliable renewable energy to households, schools, clinics and small and medium-sized enterprises in the Kigoma Region.
The Malagarasi Hydropower project has several components: a run-of-the-river hydropower plant facility; a 54- km, 132 kV transmission line that will connect to Tanzania’s national grid; a distribution network expansion operation that includes rural electrification and last-mile connections; project management and contract administration support; and compensation and resettlement of affected persons.
Bank President Adesina Akinwumi noted that the approval of the project “is a reflection of the Bank’s commitment to assist the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania to accelerate its transition to more inclusive and sustainable growth through the production of clean, reliable and affordable electricity.”
The project’s overall project cost is estimated at $144.14 million. The bulk of the funding ($120 million) will be sourced from the Bank Group’s sovereign window, with an additional $20 million contributed by the Africa Growing Together Fund – a co-financing fund with resources from the government of the People’s Republic of China that is administered by the Bank. The Government of Tanzania will provide the remaining $4.14 million.
The hydropower plant’s expected average annual output of 181 GWh will meet the electricity needs of as many as 133,649 Kigoma households, bringing the region’s electrification rate more closely in line with the rest of the country.
The project is expected to create about 700 jobs during construction, cut the region’s electricity generation costs to approximately $0.04/kWh from the current $0.33/kWh, and also reduce reliance on greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels. The cost of doing business will also fall because industry will no longer need to maintain costly back-up generators.
The project aligns with Tanzania’s national Development Vision 2025 and its Second Five-Year Development Plan (2016/17 - 2020/21) and complements other regional initiatives, including the North West Grid 400 kV Nyakanazi-Kigoma transmission line project, which the Bank is financing in parallel with the South Korea Economic Development Co-operation Fund.
The Malagarasi Project will also directly contribute to the Bank’s Light Up & Power Africa High-5 development priority, which is being implemented through the institution’s New Deal on Energy for Africa strategy.
Commenting on the Board’s approval, Henry Batchi Baldeh, Director of the Bank’s Power Systems Development Department noted that the project is “one of the flagship physical infrastructure investments in the Government of the Tanzania’s Development Vision 2025 and Tanzania’s current Five-Year Development Plan, and that it will increase the share of renewable energy in Tanzania’s energy mix.”
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Olufemi Terry |Communication and External Relations Department | African Development Bank | email: o.terry@afdb.org(link sends e-mail)
Tanzania: African Development Bank approves $120 million loan to build Malagarasi Hydropower Project
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank have approved a $120 million loan to fund the construction of a 50 MW hydropower plant in Western Tanzania that will provide reliable renewable energy to households, schools, clinics and small and medium-sized enterprises in the Kigoma Region.
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Tanzania: African Development Bank approves $120 million loan to build Malagarasi Hydropower Project
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank have approved a $120 million loan to fund the construction of a 50 MW hydropower plant in Western Tanzania that will provide reliable renewable energy to households, schools, clinics and small and medium-sized enterprises in the Kigoma Region.
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