{"id":278539,"date":"2019-06-10T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYGh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZ2xvYmFsY29uc3RydWN0aW9ucmV2aWV3LmNvbS9uZXdzL3dvcmstNDRibi1ldGhpb3BpYW4tZ2VvdGhlcm1hbC1zY2hlbWVzLWJlZ2luLXNlcHRlL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:19:47","slug":"work-was-set-to-begin-on-4-4-billion-corbetti-and-tulu-moye-geothermal-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278539","title":{"rendered":"Work was set to begin on $4.4 billion Corbetti and Tulu Moye geothermal projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Global Construction Review reported that work was due to begin in September on the Corbetti and Tulu Moye geothermal projects developed by Reykjavik Geothermal, schemes that might eventually produce about 1 GW at a combined cost near $4.4 billion.<\/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=\"Work was set to begin on $4.4 billion Corbetti and Tulu Moye geothermal projects\" \/>\n<p>Each site was described as potentially reaching about 500 MW, which would make them among Africa\u2019s largest independent power projects, with early-stage finance arranged for a smaller first phase of roughly 50\u201365 MW and partners including Africa Renewable Energy Fund, Iceland Drilling, and Meridiam.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy and infrastructure archive, the GCR report dates the mid-2019 launch window for Ethiopia\u2019s big Rift Valley geothermal build-out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalconstructionreview.com\/news\/work-44bn-ethiopian-geothermal-schemes-begin-septe\/\">Global Construction Review<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work on $4.4bn Ethiopian geothermal schemes to begin in September &#8211; News &#8211; GCR&nbsp;&nbsp;GCRWork is due to begin in September on two large-scale geothermal projects in Ethiopia that may eventually produce 1GW of electricity at a cost of $4.4bn.<\/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-278539","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-1asz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278539","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=278539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755094,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278539\/revisions\/755094"}],"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=278539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}