Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Updated Oct. 15 at 1:29 p.m. A colossal dam is near completion on ...

Ethiopia used its hydroelectric power, produced by the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), to facilitate Bitcoin mining. To that end, Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) has converted latent energy ...

Ethiopia is in the midst of a major nation-building project, constructing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Upon completion, GERD will become the largest hydropower plant in Africa ...

Formerly known as the Millennium Dam, it is a gravity dam located in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia. GERD is a roller compacted concrete gravity dam that’s 1,800 metres long and 175 ...

Ethiopia frequently reiterates that the dam will power its development aspirations and boost its ambition to attain a lower-middle-income status in the near future. Meanwhile, Egypt and Sudan ...

However, the recent visit of NBI member states' water ministers to Ethiopia's Abbay Dam has strengthened their commitment to deeper collaboration, offering hope for a stronger institutional ...

On the Abay river, in the Beneshangul Gumuz region of Ethiopia. The project envisages ... roller-compacted-concrete (RCC) dam with a 1 780-m-long crest; a rock-filled saddle dam, 4 800 m long ...