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Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam
simonkabz
#1 Posted : Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:17:07 PM
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I missed this. Wow!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Dam
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simonkabz
#2 Posted : Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:18:46 PM
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Not sure why my links seldom work!

www.ertagov.com/erta/ert...africas-biggest-dam.html
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simonkabz
#3 Posted : Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:39:17 PM
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This, in addition to the under construction Gibe 3 dam.......

The Gilgel Gibe III Dam is an under construction 243 m high roller-compacted concrete dam with an associated hydroelectric power plant on the Omo river in Ethiopia.
Once completed it would be the largest hydroelectric plant
in Africa with a power output of about 1870 Megawatts (MW), thus more than doubling total installed capacity in Ethiopia from its
2007 level of 814 MW. [1][2]
The Gibe III dam would be
part of the Gibe cascade, a
series of dams including the existing Gibe I dam (184 MW) and Gibe II power station
(420 MW) as well as the
planned Gibe IV (1472 MW)
and Gibe V (560 MW) dams.
The existing dams are owned and operated by the state-owned Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, which is
also the client for the Gibe III Hydroelectric dam.
As of February 2011,
according to the project
company the project was 41% completed and the
completion of the dam was tentatively scheduled for July 2013. Full commissioning is
scheduled for June 2013 after the reservoir will have filled and the hydroelectric plant
will have been completed.
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Mukiri
#4 Posted : Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:52:13 PM
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I'm curious, why doesn't Kenya do something like this? Why do we have to import electricity? Or worse, meddle with the dangerous nuclear energy?

Proverbs 19:21
mkeiyd
#5 Posted : Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:24:50 PM
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Mukiri wrote:
I'm curious, why doesn't Kenya do something like this? Why do we have to import electricity? Or worse, meddle with the dangerous nuclear energy?

I would think terrain n amount of water in our rivers.
simonkabz
#6 Posted : Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:01:10 PM
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mkeiyd wrote:
Mukiri wrote:
I'm curious, why doesn't Kenya do something like this? Why do we have to import electricity? Or worse, meddle with the dangerous nuclear energy?

I would think terrain n amount of water in our rivers.


That's true. Now compare our investment in geothermal......very expensive (figures?) compared to the grand renaissance, whose output will be the 6th highest in the world.

Ethiopia appears to be on a grand march. ......and the oil potential has not yet been exploited. .....maybe we should retain baks. ...
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murchr
#7 Posted : Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:16:11 PM
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Mukiri wrote:
I'm curious, why doesn't Kenya do something like this? Why do we have to import electricity? Or worse, meddle with the dangerous nuclear energy?


Mvua ya Ethiopia ni deadly, we dont get as much rain as they do the place floods like nothing else. So the dam was very vital. I wonder tho if the construction will halt the flowing of waters into L.Turkana. Dr. Leakey was fighting against it.
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simonkabz
#8 Posted : Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:50:46 PM
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The Grand Ethiopian
Renaissance Dam ( Amharic :
ህዳሴ ግድብ, Hidāse Gēdīb ),
formerly known as the
Millennium Dam and
sometimes referred to as
Hidase Dam , is an under
construction gravity dam on
the Blue Nile River about 40
km (25 mi) east of Sudan in
the Benishangul-Gumuz
Region of Ethiopia. [1] At
6,000 MW, the dam will be
the largest hydroelectric
power plant
in Africa when completed, as
well as the seventh largest in
the world sharing the spot
with Krasnoyarskaya. [2] The
reservoir at 63 billion cubic
meters will be one of the
continent's largest.[3]
Background
On 31 March 2011, a day after
the project was made public,
a US$4.8 billion contract was
awarded without competitive
bidding to Salini Costruttori
and the dam's foundation
stone was laid on 2 April 2011
by Ethiopia's Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi .[4] A rock
crushing plant has been
constructed along with a
small air strip for fast
transportation. [5]
Construction is expected to
last 44 months when two
generators would be
operational. [
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tinker
#9 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:20:39 AM
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murchr wrote:
Mukiri wrote:
I'm curious, why doesn't Kenya do something like this? Why do we have to import electricity? Or worse, meddle with the dangerous nuclear energy?


Mvua ya Ethiopia ni deadly, we dont get as much rain as they do the place floods like nothing else. So the dam was very vital. I wonder tho if the construction will halt the flowing of waters into L.Turkana. Dr. Leakey was fighting against it.


The location of this dam is very far away from turkana-kenya border, turkana is on the upper side hence It can't be affected...the people who should be crying are the Egyptians
....He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion..
simonkabz
#10 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:08:05 PM
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tinker wrote:
murchr wrote:
Mukiri wrote:
I'm curious, why doesn't Kenya do something like this? Why do we have to import electricity? Or worse, meddle with the dangerous nuclear energy?


Mvua ya Ethiopia ni deadly, we dont get as much rain as they do the place floods like nothing else. So the dam was very vital. I wonder tho if the construction will halt the flowing of waters into L.Turkana. Dr. Leakey was fighting against it.


The location of this dam is very far away from turkana-kenya border, turkana is on the upper side hence It can't be affected...the people who should be crying are the Egyptians


Egypt actually, and as expected, threatened offensive action on Ethiopia. They later calmed down somewhat. Sudan intends to buy the electricity.
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kiash
#11 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:43:20 PM
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How come they are allowed to do so, excuse my ignorance coz I heard about the Nile treaty which I think prohibits the exploitation of the Nile waters? There was a time there were negotiations of the same ama they were renegotiated???
murchr
#12 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2012 3:49:03 PM
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kiash wrote:
How come they are allowed to do so, excuse my ignorance coz I heard about the Nile treaty which I think prohibits the exploitation of the Nile waters? There was a time there were negotiations of the same ama they were renegotiated???


Remember when Karua was the min of water? Kenya and her neighbors decided they will not be bound by a colonial treaty that they were not party of. I guess Ethiopia decided they would go full throttle. The location of the dam floods alot and this will help in solving the issue. As for Egypt, they are too indulged in their democracy that they dont know what is happening. We should care less anyway. We need the power.
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#13 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:14:14 PM
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kiash wrote:
How come they are allowed to do so, excuse my ignorance coz I heard about the Nile treaty which I think prohibits the exploitation of the Nile waters? There was a time there were negotiations of the same ama they were renegotiated???


Please free your mind from the colonist. Don't you find it amazing that Kisumu, being on the shores of one of the largest fresh water lakes in the world has perennial water shortages?
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#14 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:36:40 PM
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In 1976, equipments destined to Ethiopia for dam construction exploded in the high sea.

In 1979, Egypt's 2nd president, Anwar Sadat, said that Egypt's next war would be about WATER.

The dam in Jinja, Uganda is manned jointly by UG and Egyptian Commandos.

Egyptian Ambassadors to East African States are usualy Water Engineers or similar.

Leaked E-Mails by wikileaks in 2011, quoted egyptian officials saying that Sudan and Egyptian would build a military base close to Ethiopia in Kusti.

Egypt gives alot of money to East African State for borehole drilling.
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murchr
#15 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:45:10 PM
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dunkang wrote:


Egypt gives alot of money to East African State for borehole drilling.


In other words, they give us sweets Laughing out loudly
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Obi 1 Kanobi
#16 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:08:27 PM
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One shud visit ethiopia before even trying to admire them. Addis is exactly like Nairobi in 1990. Ok with lots of unplanned construction but still very backward.

There is nothing to like in Ethiopia. Thank God I am in kenya.
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#17 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:58:12 PM
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Food for thought:

After completion, the Renaissance Dam is set to supply 6,000 MW. That's approximately six times Kenya's current capacity!

A round of Applause Applause Applause to the Ethiopians!
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Mjasirii
#18 Posted : Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:54:54 AM
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This is good for Kenya I believe we are the first customers for Ethiopia.
tony stark
#19 Posted : Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:52:03 PM
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tinker wrote:

The location of this dam is very far away from turkana-kenya border, turkana is on the upper side hence It can't be affected...the people who should be crying are the Egyptians


Please refrain from commenting without knowledge. This dam is on river Omo which supplies Lake Turkana with 90% of the inflow while the remaining 10% is from turkwell which also has a dam.

This doesn't affect the blue Nile. Tinker please Think before you comment/ write or let your finger do the walking.
tony stark
#20 Posted : Thursday, December 13, 2012 1:01:25 PM
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murchr wrote:
kiash wrote:
How come they are allowed to do so, excuse my ignorance coz I heard about the Nile treaty which I think prohibits the exploitation of the Nile waters? There was a time there were negotiations of the same ama they were renegotiated???


Remember when Karua was the min of water? Kenya and her neighbors decided they will not be bound by a colonial treaty that they were not party of. I guess Ethiopia decided they would go full throttle. The location of the dam floods alot and this will help in solving the issue. As for Egypt, they are too indulged in their democracy that they dont know what is happening. We should care less anyway. We need the power.


What is up with Wazua today. What is with the fake conspiracy theories!

Gibe 3 is on river Omo.

Omo flows into lake turkana and is im no way related to blue nile.

The only country down stream is Kenya and we, Government, are already in agreement and we are buying 60% of the total output of the dam.

Egypt was not concerned about Gibe 3 but were concerned about the hidase dam.

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