{"id":279141,"date":"2019-06-17T14:35:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=4826621f1849ddc7ac1e78f25c948c19"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:16:09","slug":"business-daily-said-the-kenya-ethiopia-power-highway-would-reshape-east-african-energy-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279141","title":{"rendered":"Business Daily said the Kenya\u2013Ethiopia power highway would reshape East African energy trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 June 2019 Business Daily argued that the Kenya\u2013Ethiopia electricity interconnection would enable cross-border trade in reliable and more affordable power across the East African region.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Business Daily said the Kenya\u2013Ethiopia power highway would reshape East African energy trade\" \/>\n<p>The commentary framed the high-voltage link as a regional game changer that could move surplus hydro generation toward markets that still faced costly thermal supply.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy-infrastructure archive, the Business Daily piece dates mid-2019 expectations for the Kenya\u2013Ethiopia power highway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/ideas\/Kenya-Ethiopia-power-highway-game-changer\/4259414-5161010-5n55ip\/index.html\">Business Daily Africa<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Kenya-Ethiopia power highway is a game changer&nbsp;&nbsp;Business DailyThe Kenya-Ethiopia project will enable cross-border trade of reliable and affordable energy from the East African region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"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-279141","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\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aCh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279141","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=279141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755258,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279141\/revisions\/755258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}