Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam 60 per cent completed
10 August, 2017
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia (Xinhua), 10 Aug. 2017 -- The Ethiopian government on Monday disclosed that the construction of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has reached 60 percent completion rate.
The construction of the dam, which will be Africa’s largest dam upon completion with a total volume of 74,000 million cubic meters, was started in April 2011 with a cost of 80 billion Ethiopian birr (about 4.7 billion U.S. dollars).
Disclosing the 60 percent completion rate of Ethiopia’s landmark energy production project, Debretsion Gebremichael, Ethiopia’s Minister of Communication and Information Technology who is also Board Chairman of Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, said that construction activities are well underway despite the approaching Ethiopia’s major rainy season.
