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10 Must-Know Facts About Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam: Africa’s Energy Revolution! - Addis Insight : 10 Must-Know Facts About Ethiopia ’s Grand Renaissance Dam: Africa’s Energy Revolution!   Addis Insight GERD is the largest hydropower project on the African continent. Once completed, it will have a generation capacity of 6,450 megawatts (MW), making it one of the largest in the world. This is nearly twice the size of the next largest African dam, the Inga 3 project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. GERD’s immense energy potential positions Ethiopia as a key player in regional energy production, with the ability to meet much of its domestic electricity needs and export surplus power to neighboring countries. Continue Reading...

Optimizing hydropower generation from the Nile upstream mega-dams during prolonged droughts while minimizing the downstream water deficit is the cornerstone in resolving the ongoing major water conflict in the Eastern Nile River Basin. A decade of negotiation and mediation has been unsuccessful, mainly due to the hydraulic uncertainties associated with operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam during prolonged droughts. Based on the negotiation outcomes, we provide comprehensive assessments of the efficiency of multiple drought-mitigation policies for the impact of dam operation. Our results suggest it can generate almost optimal hydropower without a noticeable downstream deficit during wet, average, and temporary drought flow conditions. For prolonged drought, we identify an ideal operation policy allowing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam to generate a sustainable energy of 87% of its optimal hydropower without generating additional downstream water deficit. Furthermore, we pro...

Abbas Sharaqi, a professor of geology and water resources, confirmed that an earthquake occurred on Thursday, at 6:28 PM Cairo time, with a magnitude of 4.5 and a depth of 10 km in the Ethiopian Rift Valley, 150 km east of Addis Ababa and 600 km from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Sharaqi stated on his Facebook page that this was the third earthquake in the current week, following earthquakes on December 21 and 23, 2024, in the same location with magnitudes of 4.4 and 4.6 respectively. Continue Reading...