{"id":423892,"date":"2018-11-13T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=53afbddcb0507173e741e2d97207731c"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:37:03","slug":"tulu-moye-geothermal-project-icelandic-consultants-and-ethiopias-clean-power-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/423892","title":{"rendered":"Tulu Moye geothermal project: Icelandic consultants and Ethiopia\u2019s clean power push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s <strong>Tulu Moye<\/strong> geothermal project in the Main Ethiopian Rift drew attention in 2018 when Icelandic engineering firms Mannvit and Verk\u00eds were reported as consultants on development work\u2014part of a wider push to add geothermal to a power mix still dominated by hydropower.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-316172\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tulu-Moge-Geothermal-Project.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tulu Moye geothermal project: Icelandic consultants and Ethiopia\u2019s clean power push\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>AFRIK 21 and sector coverage placed Tulu Moye among several Rift Valley prospects where drilling risk, financing, and grid offtake determine whether \u201cclean baseload\u201d power actually reaches industry and cities.<\/p>\n<p>For Horn business and energy readers, geothermal remains strategic: it can diversify away from drought-sensitive hydro, support industrial parks, and attract Nordic and multilateral technical partners\u2014if exploration wells and power-purchase deals hold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrik21.africa\/en\/ethiopia-mannvit-and-verkis-consultants-on-tulu-moye-geothermal-project\/\">AFRIK 21<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkgeoenergy.com\/\">ThinkGeoEnergy<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETHIOPIA: Mannvit and Verk\u00eds, consultants on Tulu Moye geothermal project&nbsp;&nbsp;AFRIK 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":316172,"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-423892","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\/2020\/05\/Tulu-Moge-Geothermal-Project.jpg?fit=966%2C602&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1MgY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423892","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=423892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599923,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423892\/revisions\/599923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}