Outline

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Landlocked country in East Africa

Population: 99.4 million (2015),

& growth rate 2.3% per year

Total Area: 1.13 million sq.km

GDP: $67 billion (2015) & per capita: $739

Economic sectors: Agriculture (37.5%), Industry (16.6%),

Service (46.0%)

Religion: Orthodox, 43.5%, Islam, 33.9%, Protestant, 18.6 %/2007/

80+ ethnic groups and languages

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Institutional Framework (MoWIE)

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Wind Energy

Potential: 1,350 GW

Average wind speed :

> 7m/s at 50 m

Installed capacity: 324MW

Solar Energy

Potential: 5.5kWh/sq.m/day

Installed: Not yet! (Grid tied)

- 95,000 SHS units

- 1,000,000 solar lanterns

- 1,500 institutional solar PVs

(from 2010-2015)

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Hydropower

Potential: 45, 000MW

Current Installed: 3,810 MW

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Geothermal

Potential: 10, 000MW

Current Installed: 7.2 MW

Biomass and fossil fuel resources

Wood – 1,120 million tonnes (annually exploitable)

Agro-waste – 15 to 20 million tonnes (annually exploitable)

Natural gas - 113 billion m3

Coal - 300 million tonnes.

Oil shale – 253 million tonnes9

Installed capacity

Installed capacity Primary Energy Consumption

- Domestic sector (89 %)

Share of RE – 96.7%

From 2010-2015,

9 million improved cook stoves 100kWh/y per capita consumption

10,500 biogas plants (household) 32 % electrification rate

Total installed 120 kW micro hydro power plants

Installed 6 kW small scale wind systems10

Source Capacity (MW)

Hydro 3,810

Wind 324

Geothermal 7.2

Diesel 143

Total 4,284.233%

32%

35%

Electricity Consumption by Sector

Industry

Domestic

Commercial

Rural Electrification Programmes

Universal electric access program (UEAP) – grid extension

Off-grid electrification programmes (mini-grids – hydro, solarand small scale wind systems)

Stand alone systems (SHS, solar lanterns, biogasplants, improved cook stoves etc)

SHSs, Solar lanterns and kiosks used for:

lighting

powering appliances (mobile, radio, TV, teaching aids etc)

cooling vaccines and medicines (health centres)

water pumping (water supply & irrigation)

Biogas - lighting and cooking

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Micro hydro

lighting & productive uses

Energy Efficiency Initiatives

Replacement of Incandescent bulbs ( > 4 million CFL)

Duty support for import and manufacture of EE products

Pilot standards & labeling for selected appliances

Electric motors, ovens and cooking plates

Refrigerators and air conditioning machines

Washing machines

Pilot installation of solar LED street lights (cities)

Testing locally made electric cooking stoves

Energy audits (industrial sector)

Awareness campaigns

Labeling, saving, replacement

Demonstration centres of EE (cities)

Establish testing facility 12

Power plants under construction

Hydropower

Genale Dawa III

254 MW

85 % completed

Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam

Installed capacity – 6,000 MW

16*375 MW Francis turbines

Annual generation – 15,692GWh

55 % completed 13

Waste to Energy and Geothermal

‘Reppi’ Waste to Energy Plant

50 MW installed capacity Aluto Langano Goethermal

1,400 tons of waste/day 75 MW installed capacity

CDM regestred project Two drilling wells has been

Current status – 87 % completed (total 24 wells)14

Projects in pipeline (IPP)

1000 MW Corbetti Geothermal power plant

(MoU signed for the first 500 MW & drilling started)

Projects underway through a competitive bidding process

5 Hydropower projects – 2,747 MW

2 Solar farm projects – 200 MW

3 Wind farm projects – 620 MW

Total 3,567 MW

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Regional Electricity Market

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MoU on power export signed with Tanzania, Rwanda and Yemen

Energy development plans

Growth & Transformation Plan II (2016-2020)

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Sr.No Source type Capacity (MW)

1 Hydropower 13,817

2 Wind 1,224

3 Geothermal 577

4 Reserve fuel (gas turbine) 509

5 Bagasse (Cogeneration) 474

6 Solar PV (grid) 300

7 Biomass (thermal) 257

8 Waste to Energy 50

Total 17,208

RE Share 97 %

Off-grid rural electrification plans

GTP II (2016 – 2020)

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Sr.No Source type Units to be disseminated

1 Solar lanterns 3.6 million

2 Solar home systems 400,000

3 Solar PVs (institutional) 3,600

4 Improved cook stoves 11.45 million

5 Household biofuel stoves 20,000

6 Household biogas plants 31,400

7 Wind/solar water pumps 300

8 Mini hydropower stations 135

Challenges

No Feed-in-Tariff (FiT)

Weak enforcement on standards and labels

lack of baseline data and public awareness on EE

Import of inefficient technologies at low price

High upfront investment costs

Weak public-private-partnership (PPP)

Learning points

Better understanding on RE & EE

Knowledge transfer

Networking opportunities

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