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- Sep 9, 202590% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Inaugurated
- Ethiopia inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on 9 September 2025 on the Blue Nile near the Sudanese border, billed as Africa's largest hydroelectric plant, at a cost of about $5 billion[1][2][3]
- Installed capacity is 5.15 GW (13 turbines) with expected annual output of about 15.7 TWh (Webuild: more than 5,000 MW, 15,700 GWh), expected to double Ethiopia's electricity production[1][3]
- Specs: gravity roller-compacted concrete dam about 1,780-1,800 m long and 145 m high (Webuild cites 170 m), with a reservoir of up to 74 billion m3[1][2][3]
- Contract worth US$4.8 billion went to Salini Impregilo (now Webuild) on 31 March 2011, with foundation stone on 2 April 2011 and original completion targeted for July 2017; more than 25,000 people worked on it[1][3]
- Filling ran in five stages from July 2020 to October 2024 (540 m to 640 m); first power was 20 February 2022[1]
- PM Abiy Ahmed called it a "shared opportunity" with the leaders of Kenya and Somalia attending; Egypt and Sudan did not attend and called Ethiopia's actions "unilateral", with talks stalled since 2011[1][2]
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- [1]90%en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Damen.wikipedia.org· Posted Sep 11, 2026· Starts Sep 9, 2025 ✓· 67% of score
Happened as dated, per en.wikipedia.org: "…100 ft).[17][18] The plant was formally inaugurated on 9 September 2025. [19] On 20 February 2022, t…"
- [2]90%Ethiopia inaugurates GERD dam amid downstream tensions with Egypt, Sudanaljazeera.com· Published Sep 9, 2025· 16% of score
Al Jazeera independently confirms the GERD inauguration took place "Tuesday, September 9, 2025," matching the pin's stored date.
- [3]93%Webuild: Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) inaugurated, biggest hydropower project ever built in Africawebuildgroup.com· Published Sep 9, 2025· 16% of score
Webuild's own press release states Ethiopia inaugurated the GERD on "September 9, 2025," matching the pin's stored date exactly, as the dam's lead contractor.[1]
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