By AGGREY MUTAMBO More by this AuthorAddis Ababa on Thursday launched electricity production from the second turbine of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), doubling its power output to 540MW. The dam now already produces the same amount of power as that of Gibe dams on the country’s Omo River. The Gerd, a $5 billion project put up from local fundraising is meant to produce up to 6,400MW of power when fully operational. The dam, at 145 metres high and 1.78km long, could hold as much as 74 billion cubic metres of water. The dam lies on the Blue Nile River in the Benishangul-Gumuz region in western Ethiopia, near the border with Sudan.

Source: Ethiopian News August 12, 2022 00:45 UTC