Sep 7 , 2025
Ethiopia Electric Utility (EEU) plans to expand the national electricity grid by 8,689 km in the 2026 fiscal year, Yohannes Tonja, head of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, said. The rollout includes 86,789 km of medium-voltage lines, 92,572 km of low-voltage lines, and pre-maintenance on transformers. EEU will also rehabilitate 1,218 km of medium-voltage lines, install 1,893 transformers, and upgrade 308.7 km of low-voltage infrastructure. Operational targets include cutting power interruptions by 30pc, reducing average outage duration by 38pc, and lowering power losses by 10pc. In 2024/25, EEU supplied electricity to manufacturing, data mining, water pumping stations, and railway depots.
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