{"id":276274,"date":"2019-05-17T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=ed4d4e4dd64dc24785c84a70c0d5b3f8"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:30","slug":"ethiopia-began-rationing-electricity-for-homes-and-factories-after-hydropower-reservoirs-fell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276274","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia began rationing electricity for homes and factories after hydropower reservoirs fell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-May 2019 Reuters and other wires reported that Water and Electricity Minister Seleshi Bekele said Ethiopia had started rationing power for households and industry after low water at dams, especially Gibe 3, opened a deficit of roughly 476 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 began rationing electricity for homes and factories after hydropower reservoirs fell\" \/>\n<p>Under a plan that was to run into July, homes faced hours of daily blackouts and heavy industries such as cement and steel had to cut shifts. Ethiopia also suspended electricity exports to Djibouti and Sudan that had been earning tens of millions of dollars a year.<\/p>\n<p>The blackouts landed while officials still sold Ethiopia as a future African power exporter built on Nile hydropower. Rainfall and reservoir management, not only dam ceremonies, decided whether the lights stayed on.<\/p>\n<p>As energy crisis archive, the rationing decision is a dated national checkpoint for later drought and FX stories that again tied factories to unreliable power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/5\/18\/ethiopia-begins-rationing-electricity-for-homes-and-industries\">Al Jazeera \/ Reuters<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190517170138-wdc23\/\">Thomson Reuters Foundation<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia starts rationing electricity for homes and industries&nbsp;&nbsp;ReutersEthiopia has started to ration electricity for domestic and industrial customers after a drop in water levels in hydroelectric dams led to a production deficit, the &#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-276274","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-19S2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276274","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=276274"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754799,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276274\/revisions\/754799"}],"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=276274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}