{"id":277787,"date":"2019-06-01T09:13:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T13:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiV2h0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vZXRoaW9waWEtbGF1bmNoZXMtMTItc21hbGwtc2NhbGUtc29sYXItZW5lcmd5LXByb2plY3RzL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:18:55","slug":"ethiopia-awarded-12-small-scale-solar-projects-to-chinese-and-spanish-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277787","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia awarded 12 small-scale solar projects to Chinese and Spanish firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 New Business Ethiopia reported that the government had awarded 12 small-scale solar energy development projects to three Chinese firms and one Spanish firm.<\/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 awarded 12 small-scale solar projects to Chinese and Spanish firms\" \/>\n<p>Distributed solar was meant to fill electricity gaps outside the big hydropower backbone, and foreign EPC awards showed how Ethiopia was still importing both capital and know-how for renewables.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy archive, the award notice dates a concrete mid-2019 solar procurement package.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/ethiopia-launches-12-small-scale-solar-energy-projects\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia launches 12 small-scale solar energy projects&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaThe Government of Ethiopia has awarded 12 small-scale solar energy development projects to three Chinese and one Spanish firms. The projects will be built in &#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-277787","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-1agr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277787","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=277787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755003,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277787\/revisions\/755003"}],"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=277787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}