{"id":277488,"date":"2019-05-30T05:26:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T09:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiX2h0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vcmV5a2phdmlrLWdlb3RoZXJtYWwtdG8tYmVnaW4tZXhwbG9yYXRpb24tZHJpbGxpbmctaW4tZXRoaW9waWEv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:28:27","slug":"reykjavik-geothermal-prepared-exploration-drilling-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277488","title":{"rendered":"Reykjavik Geothermal prepared exploration drilling in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 New Business Ethiopia reported that Reykjavik Geothermal was preparing to begin exploration drilling in Ethiopia as part of the country\u2019s push to develop geothermal power.<\/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=\"Reykjavik Geothermal prepared exploration drilling in Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>Icelandic and other developers had long eyed the Rift Valley\u2019s heat resource as a way to diversify away from drought-sensitive hydropower.<\/p>\n<p>Exploration drilling is only a first step toward power purchase deals, but it marks real capital risk on Ethiopian ground.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy and FDI archive, the Reykjavik Geothermal note dates one 2019 geothermal exploration milestone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/reykjavik-geothermal-to-begin-exploration-drilling-in-ethiopia\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reykjavik Geothermal to begin exploration drilling in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaReykjavik Geothermal, a power developer backed by hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II, is about to kick off a $4.4 billion project in September to bri&#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-277488","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-1abC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277488","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=277488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754969,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277488\/revisions\/754969"}],"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=277488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}