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Ashegoda Wind Farm to start power generation in JulyAddis Ababa, June 8 (WIC) – Ashegoda Wind Farm, Ethiopia’s first wind farm, is poised to start projection of the first megawatt of electricity in July this year. The wind farm project is under construction in Ashegoda, 20 km south west of Mekelle, seat of Tigray regional state, at an estimated cost of 210 million euro by Vergnet Group, the French turbine manufacturer and wind farm developer. According to Ambassador of France to Ethiopia Jean-Christophe Belliard, who closely follows the project, the wind farm will start the projection of its first megawatt of electricity in July 2011. “There was a slow start to the project for various reasons,” said the Ambassador in a recent interview with WIC. “But now the project is moving very quickly”. The three-phased project, dubbed the biggest wind farm in sub-Saharan Africa, will have an installed capacity of 120 megawatt of electricity. According to the ambassador, the project’s first phase, with an installed capacity of 30 megawatt of electricity, will be fully completed by September 2011 and connected to the national grid. “The farm is also equipped with the latest technology, which makes it possible to tone the wind mill down by just pressing a button during a bad storm,” the ambassador told WIC. A total of 120 GEV-HP 1 megawatt twin-blade tilting rotor turbines will be installed when the project is fully completed in February 2013. Last Updated ( Wednesday, 08 June 2011 ) Click HERE to go to the source of this article. |