List of power stations in Ethiopia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Hydroelectric

Hydroelectric station	Type	Capacity	Year completed	Name of reservoir	River
Tis Abay I Power Station	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	12 MW	1953	Lake Tana Lake Tana Lake Tana is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia...	Abay River
Tis Abay II Power Station	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	73 MW	2001	Lake Tana Lake Tana Lake Tana is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia...	Abay River
Koka Power Station	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	43 MW	1960	Lake Gelila	Awash River Awash River The Awash is a major river of Ethiopia. Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia, and empties into a chain of interconnected lakes that begin with Lake Gargori and end with Lake Abbe on the border with Djibouti, some 100 kilometers from the head of the Gulf of Tadjoura...
Awash II Power Station	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	32 MW	1966
Awash III Power Station	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	32 MW	1971
Fincha Power Station Fincha Power Station The Fincha Power Station is a hydroelectric power plant of the Omo River in Ethiopia. It has a power generating capacity of 100 MW enough to power over 66,900 homes...	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	100 MW	1973
Melka Wakena Power Station Melka Wakena Power Station The Melka Wakena Power Station is a hydroelectric power plant of the Wabe Shebelle River in Ethiopia. It has a power generating capacity of 150 MW enough to power over 100,300 homes...	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	150 MW	1989
Sor Power Station	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	5 MW	1990
Gilgel Gibe I Power Station Gilgel Gibe I Power Station The Gilgel Gibe I Power Station is a hydroelectric power plant of the Omo River in Ethiopia. It has a power generating capacity of 184 MW, enough to power over 123,200 homes....	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	184 MW	2004	Gilgel Gibe Reservoir	Omo River Omo River The Omo River is an important river of southern Ethiopia. Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia, and empties into Lake Turkana on the border with Kenya...
Tekeze Power Station	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	300 MW	2009	Tekeze Reservoir	Tekeze River Tekezé River The Tekezé River, also known as the Takkaze River, is a major river of Ethiopia, and forms a section the westernmost border of Ethiopia and Eritrea for part of its course. The river is also known as the Setit in Eritrea, western Ethiopia, and eastern Sudan. According to materials published by the...
Gilgel Gibe II Power Station Gilgel Gibe II Power Station The Gilgel Gibe II Power Station is a hydroelectric power station on the Omo River in Ethiopia. The power station receives water from a tunnel entrance on the Gilgel Gibe River. It has an installed capacity of 420 MW and was inaugurated on January 14, 2010...	Run of river	420 MW	2009	Gilgel Gibe Reservoir	Omo River Omo River The Omo River is an important river of southern Ethiopia. Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia, and empties into Lake Turkana on the border with Kenya...
Beles Power Station Beles Hydroelectric Power Plant The Beles Hydroelectric Power Plant, sometimes referred to as Beles II or Tana Beles, is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plant in Ethiopia near Lake Tana. The power plant receives water from the lake and after utilizing it to produce electricity, the water is then discharged into the Beles...	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	460 MW	2010		Lake Tana Lake Tana Lake Tana is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia... /Beles River Beles River Beles River is a river of western Ethiopia. A tributary of the Abay river , the Beles rises in Dangur woreda to flow in a south-west direction to its confluence. Its catchment area amounts to about 14,200 square kilometers....
Gilgel Gibe III Power Station	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	1,870 MW	2013		Omo River Omo River The Omo River is an important river of southern Ethiopia. Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia, and empties into Lake Turkana on the border with Kenya...
Fincha Amerti Neshe Power Station	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	100 MW	2013
Halele Worabesa Power Station	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	440 MW	2015
Chemoga Yeda Power Station	Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...	278 MW	2015

Hydroelectric

See also