{"id":278017,"date":"2019-06-04T10:17:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEMnLUhan0ExvcaOdGMMfQgQqFggEKg4IACoGCAowpa8mMJL_BTDT9gk?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:15:25","slug":"the-world-bank-approved-ethiopias-first-renewable-energy-investment-guarantees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278017","title":{"rendered":"The World Bank approved Ethiopia\u2019s first renewable-energy investment guarantees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 AllAfrica reported that the World Bank, through the International Development Association, had approved guarantees under its Renewable Energy Guarantees Program, described as the first such guarantee package deployed in Ethiopia.<\/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=\"The World Bank approved Ethiopia\u2019s first renewable-energy investment guarantees\" \/>\n<p>About $200 million in investment guarantees was meant to bring private companies into renewable power generation, which fitted Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early push to open infrastructure to private capital.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy and FDI archive, the report dates the World Bank\u2019s first guarantee backing for Ethiopia\u2019s private renewable power sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201906040662.html\">AllAfrica<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: World Bank Backs Private Sector Power Investment&nbsp;&nbsp;AllAfrica &#8211; Top Africa NewsThe World Bank, through its International Development Association (IDA), has approved the guarantee under its Renewable Energy Guarantees Program, which is&#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-278017","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-1ak9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278017","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=278017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755040,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278017\/revisions\/755040"}],"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=278017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}