{"id":276464,"date":"2019-05-19T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=076233e0b280c8d657745520f93b3f50"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:28:04","slug":"ethiopian-electric-power-restarted-two-turbines-at-the-tekeze-hydro-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276464","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Electric Power restarted two turbines at the Tekez\u00e9 hydro plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May 2019 Afrik21 reported that state utility Ethiopian Electric Power had reactivated two turbines at the Tekez\u00e9 hydropower plant in northern Ethiopia so they could feed the grid again.<\/p>\n\"Ethiopian\n

Tekez\u00e9 is one of the large dams Ethiopia relies on when rainfall and reservoir levels cooperate. Bringing turbines back online during a season of national rationing was both a technical fix and a political signal that engineers were chasing every available megawatt.<\/p>\n

Hydropower recovery does not erase drought risk. It does show how maintenance and water management decide whether northern plants help or abandon industry and homes.<\/p>\n

Kept as energy archive, the Tekez\u00e9 restart pairs with 2019 rationing stories and with later Horn debates about exporting power while domestic supply stays unstable.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> Afrik21<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ETHIOPIA: EEP reactivates two turbines at Tekez\u00e9 hydroelectric power plant  AFRIK 21Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), a state-owned company, has revived two turbines at the Tekez\u00e9 hydroelectric power plant in northern Ethiopia. They will once ….<\/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-276464","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-19V6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276464","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=276464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754826,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276464\/revisions\/754826"}],"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=276464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}