by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 20, 2022 | Consumers
For the ordinary Ethiopian customer, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a matter of national pride paid for out of pocket, but experienced day to day as an outage. The paradox of a landmark power project is that the people funding it have kept the candles...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 20, 2022 | Economics
Milestones are easy to announce and hard to measure, and the gap between the two is where business decisions go wrong. Ethiopia has just crossed a threshold it pursued for over a decade, but the useful work for an operator starts the day after the ceremony. On 20...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 20, 2022 | Lifestyle
A power station rarely changes a country’s culture directly, but reliable electricity quietly rewrites daily life — the hours a cafe can stay open, the streets that feel safe after dark, the towns a traveller is willing to visit. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 20, 2022 | Farming
Ethiopia is an agricultural country running on an industrial-scale power shortage, and the gap shows up most sharply on the farm. Grain rots for want of storage, coffee and horticulture lose value between field and buyer, and irrigation that could lift a single-season...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 20, 2022 | Economics
Ethiopia has posted some of the continent’s fastest growth rates for more than a decade, yet most of its people have lived without a dependable grid connection and its factories have long planned production around an electricity supply that could not be trusted....