The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO) is taking a loan of 1.78 billion Br to produce 50MW of power out of the refuse Addis Abeba accumulated for half a century at the Repi Waste disposal, commonly known as Koshe.
This is the first of its kind for Ethiopia and a further diversification in power supply for the authority which already is working on two wind farms on borrowed money amounting to 411 million dollars (about 7.3 billion Br at current exchange rate), with another 4.45 billion Br likely to be added to it, if a third wind farm at Assela, whose feasibility study is to be undertaken on borrowed money of one million dollars, is to proceed.
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