AMEA is developing a 300 MW, USD 600 mn wind farm in Ethiopia: Renewable energy company AMEA Power will build a 300 MW, 18k acre wind farm in Ethiopia after it signed a USD 600 mn agreement with the Ethiopian Finance Ministry yesterday. Dubbed the Aysha Project, the contract is expected to generate 2k jobs during the construction and operation phases.

AMEA will help solve Ethiopia’s electricity shortage: TheAysha project comes after an electricity shortage in Ethiopia that left some 60 mn people (around half the population) without access to the grid in 2020, reports Reuters. The shortage has led Ethiopia to embark on several large-scale energy and electricity projects, including the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. AMEA was recruited for its expertise in specialized renewable energy projects in emerging markets in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, the agreement says.

The largest wind farm in the Horn of Africa? Ethiopia has three active onshore wind power projects in the Oromia and Tigray regions of Ethiopia, with total capacities ranging between 51 MW and 153 MW. The new wind farm will be Ethiopia’s largest wind power generation plant, with its 300 MW capacity producing nearly 1.22 TW of electricity annually, according to the Ethiopian Finance Ministry.

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