{"id":275385,"date":"2019-05-08T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiT2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnJlbmV3YWJsZXNub3cuY29tL25ld3MvZXRoaW9waWEtZXhwYW5kcy1zb2xhci1yZnEtdG8tNzUwLW13LTY1MzMwMy_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:52:13","slug":"ethiopia-expanded-a-solar-tender-request-to-750-mw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/275385","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia expanded a solar tender request to 750 MW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 May 2019 Renewables Now reported that Ethiopia\u2019s Public-Private Partnerships Directorate General expanded a recently launched request for qualifications for solar power, lifting the package toward about 750 megawatts.<\/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 expanded a solar tender request to 750 MW\" \/>\n<p>The scale mattered because Ethiopia\u2019s grid story was still hydropower-heavy, rainfall-anxious, and hungry for private solar that could feed industrial parks without waiting for another mega-dam ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Tenders are paper until finance, land, and transmission line up. Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government liked renewable announcements; engineers later measured whether plants actually reached commercial operation.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy reference, the 750 MW solar RfQ is a baseline for how the Ethiopian federal government tried to court independent power producers in the reform window.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renewablesnow.com\/news\/ethiopia-expands-solar-rfq-to-750-mw-653303\/\">Renewables Now<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia expands solar RfQ to 750 MW&nbsp;&nbsp;Renewables NowMay 8 (Renewables Now) &#8211; Ethiopia&#8217;s Public-Private Partnerships Directorate General (PPP-DG) has expanded the recently launched Request for &#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-275385","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-19DH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275385","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=275385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754496,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275385\/revisions\/754496"}],"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=275385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}