{"id":2251,"date":"2022-02-28T10:40:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T10:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2022-02-28T10:40:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T10:40:35","slug":"kenya-to-buy-electricity-from-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/2251\/kenya-to-buy-electricity-from-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya to buy electricity from Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenya plans to buy electricity from Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that began generating power<\/a> for the first time last weekend.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia hopes to generate about $1bn (\u00a3746m) in annual revenue from electricity exports to neighbouring countries and beyond.<\/p>\n

A new agreement was reached between the two neighbours earlier this month. It is not yet clear how much power Kenya is signing up for and at what cost.<\/p>\n

Kenyan Energy Minister Monica Juma said this move would be key to powering the country\u2019s economic growth.<\/p>\n

The first turbine at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) has begun generating 375 megawatts (MW) of power.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia started building the $4bn dam in its northern highlands, from where 85% of the Nile’s waters flow, in 2011.<\/p>\n

When the reservoir behind the dam has filled it is expected to generate more than 5,000 MW of electricity by 2024.<\/p>\n

This will more than double Ethiopia\u2019s current electricity output.<\/p>\n

However, the dam has long been a source of contention between Ethiopia and downstream countries Sudan and Egypt.<\/p>\n

They see the dam as a threat to their water security because of their high dependence on the River Nile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenya plans to buy electricity from Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that began generating power for the first time last weekend. Ethiopia hopes to generate about $1bn (\u00a3746m) in annual revenue from electricity exports to neighbouring countries and beyond. A new agreement was reached between the two neighbours earlier this month. It is not yet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"BBC","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,29],"tags":[409,114,410,111],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-east-africa","tag-electricity-in-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam-gerd","tag-kenya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}