The Ethiopian Electric Power is going to connect Koka Power Station to its transnational electric power transmission project by February, 2016. The 230kV transmission project will be connected with electric lines that go from Dire Dawa to Dijibouti. The project which began in 2011 is 99pc complete and will have 352km of length of lines starting from Koka station.
Contracted by the Bosnia-based company, Energoinvest the project cost 764.6 million Br, 85pc of which was financed by the African Development Bank. Its completion will improve electric power accessibility in Eastern Ethiopia. Moreover, it will double the power supply to 280MW. To date, the project has created 600 temporary employment opportunities.
Meanwhile, EEP’s communication office announced that a power generation project from waste materials will be completed in February 2016. Now 76pc completed, the project has taken three years to reach this level.
The project is supposed to bring power to 19 condominium sites. A study was commissioned by the then Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation and conducted by Cambridge Industries Energy, a British based waste management company.
A second company, China National Electric Engineering Co. Ltd., has also been contracted to complete the project by May, 2016.
[allafrica.com/]
