by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 20, 2022 | Content
Landmark announcements are where facts and folklore blur, and a project as long-running and contested as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam attracts more of both than most. The discipline of a source-led package is to separate what can be verified on the day from...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 20, 2022 | Property
A dam is the most visible kind of infrastructure and the most misleading. The wall commands attention, but the value of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam to the built environment lies in everything that is harder to photograph: the transmission corridors, the...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 20, 2022 | Money
Most large power projects in Africa are financed by someone other than the country that hosts them, which is precisely why the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has always been an unusual case on the capital side. On 20 February 2022, Ethiopia began generating...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 20, 2022 | Intellectual
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is usually read as an engineering story, but its most exportable output may not be electricity at all. It is a model — a particular way of financing, sequencing and defending a piece of national infrastructure — and models travel...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 20, 2022 | Profiles
Big infrastructure is often told as the story of one leader and one ribbon, but a dam that has to run for decades is a test of institutions, not personalities. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has survived changes of government, financing strain and regional...