Ethiopia experienced a massive power grid failure on Saturday evening, plunging the nation of 120 million people into darkness. The state-owned Ethiopian Electric Utility has been working to restore power to affected areas, with partial success in some regions. The cause of the outage remains unclear, but it highlights the challenges faced. Ethiopia has made significant progress in energy access in recent years; however, despite a 94% electrification rate in urban areas, around 60 million Ethiopians remain without electricity access. 6 million. A sudden power outage today hit large part of Ethiopia. By 10:20 pm local time (1920 GMT), the power utility had managed to. The Addis Ababa Electricity Transmission and Distribution System Rehabilitation and Modernization Project aims to extend access to the electricity grid to approximately 5 million residents of the Ethiopian capital and surrounding urban areas over a radius of 50 km in the regional state of Oromia.
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