{"id":274400,"date":"2019-04-30T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=5f5309589c69829640da998d26a3046c"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:33:45","slug":"ethiopia-prepared-to-commission-genale-dawa-iii-and-a-kenya-power-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274400","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia prepared to commission Genale Dawa III and a Kenya power line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019 Construction Review reported that deputy water minister Frehiwot Woldehana said Ethiopia planned to commission the Chinese-built Genale Dawa III hydropower project and an Ethiopia\u2013Kenya electricity transmission line in the second half of 2019.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277392\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia prepared to commission Genale Dawa III and a Kenya power line\" \/>\n<p>The projects sat inside Addis Ababa\u2019s light-manufacturing hub story: power for industrial parks, export corridors, and forex that never quite matched the megaproject press releases.<\/p>\n<p>Hydropower remains Ethiopia\u2019s backbone and its rainfall anxiety. Commissioning dates are easy to announce. Grid reliability, resettlement, and debt terms decide whether a dam is development or just another ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy archive, Genale Dawa III marks another checkpoint in Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early infrastructure branding. Steam and turbines are facts. Who pays, and who sits in the dark, is politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/constructionreviewonline.com\/2019\/04\/ethiopia-to-commissions-genale-dawa-iii-hydro-project\/\">Construction Review<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia to commissions Genale Dawa III hydro project&nbsp;&nbsp;Construction ReviewEthiopia has announced plans to commission the Genale Dawa III hydro project and an electricity transmission line connecting Ethiopia to Kenya in the second &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":277392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=475%2C266&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19nO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602507,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274400\/revisions\/602507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}