Ethiopia/Nile Basin Initiative: Ethiopia-Sudan Interconnector

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The Project's development objective is to promote Ethiopia's power export revenue generation capacity through the development of regional trade opportunities in the context of the Nile Basin Initiative regional effort. The Project has two components: (a) construction of a transmission interconnection between the Ethiopian towns of Bahir-Dar and Metema at the Ethiopia/Sudan border, including substation expansion and rehabilitation, thereby linking the Ethiopian system to Sudan's grid, which is being extended in parallel to the border, and (b) strengthening Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo)'s institutional capacity to promote and implement regional power integration.