{"id":276807,"date":"2019-05-22T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=ddbb168121243e5a62b6ef9c5412bf17"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:47:15","slug":"afdbs-sefa-approved-a-995000-grant-to-prepare-ethiopia-hydropower-ipps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276807","title":{"rendered":"AfDB\u2019s SEFA approved a $995,000 grant to prepare Ethiopia hydropower IPPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Addis Standard and energy-trade sites reported that the African Development Bank\u2019s Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa approved a $995,000 grant to help Ethiopia roll out a procurement framework for independent power producers in hydropower.<\/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=\"AfDB\u2019s SEFA approved a $995,000 grant to prepare Ethiopia hydropower IPPs\" \/>\n<p>The money was meant for bankability studies, environmental and social assessments, resettlement planning, and bidding documents so private investors could enter projects under the Renewable Energy Program.<\/p>\n<p>AfDB officials said a clearer IPP process was needed if Ethiopia wanted private capital beside state utility builds, while the National Electrification Program still aimed for wide access by the mid-2020s.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy and FDI archive, the SEFA grant is a dated checkpoint for how Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government tried to invite private hydro money during rationing years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ethiopianmonitor.com\/2019\/05\/22\/afdbs-grant-to-encourage-private-investment-in-ethiopias-hydropower-projects\/\">Ethiopian Monitor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esi-africa.com\/industry-sectors\/renewable-energy\/ethiopia-secures-grant-to-roll-out-hydropower-projects\/\">ESI Africa<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: ADB\u2019s Sustainable Energy Fund approves a $995,000 grant to spur renewable investments in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;addisstandard.comAddis Abeba, May 21\/2019 \u2013 The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), managed by the African Development Bank, has o&#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-276807","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-1a0D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276807","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=276807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754860,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276807\/revisions\/754860"}],"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=276807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}