{"id":60557,"date":"2017-10-08T17:06:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T22:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopanorama.com\/?p=60557"},"modified":"2017-10-08T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T22:08:55","slug":"ethiopia-launches-tender-for-250-mw-pv-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/?p=60557","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia launches tender for 250 MW PV power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post date:\u00a008\/10\/2017 &#8211; 10:56<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"colorbox init-colorbox-processed cboxElement\" title=\" &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;copy; Energy Resources S.p.A.\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.photon.info\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/photon_watermark\/public\/images\/news\/00154536B_0.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.photon.info\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/aspect_switscher_320x220\/public\/images\/news\/00154536B_0.jpg?resize=320%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian government owned utility Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) launched a Request for Pre-Qualification (RFQ) for the development of two solar photovoltaic projects totaling 250 MW. According to the state owned \u00bbEthiopian News Agency\u00ab (ENA), the tender is part of the government plan to develop up to 500 MW of solar photovoltaic through the World Bank\u2019s Scaling Solar program, says the company.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian tender represents the fifth Scaling Solar tender in Africa to date, after the recent RFQ launch for Madagascar. Zambia, Senegal, and Madagascar are also in different phases of Scaling Solar tender. Through the EEP, Ethiopia, the fourth country to join Scaling Solar program, signed an agreement with IFC to advise on developing up to 500 MW of solar power under the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.ena.gov.et\/en\/index.php\/economy\/item\/3799-ethiopia-launches-tender-fo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.ena.gov.et<\/p>\n<p>Source \u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0 PHOTON International<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post date:\u00a008\/10\/2017 &#8211; 10:56 Ethiopian government owned utility Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) launched a Request for Pre-Qualification (RFQ) for the development of two solar photovoltaic projects totaling 250 MW. According to the state owned \u00bbEthiopian News Agency\u00ab (ENA), the tender is part of the government plan to develop up to 500 MW of solar photovoltaic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":41210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethiopanorama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pen46.png?fit=460%2C260&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60560,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60557\/revisions\/60560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}