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9 September 2022
09:01

🤢 Wow, Infowars (American alt-right website ran by Alex Jones) is now talking about African energy. What will be a next step? 👻 Grand master of KKK speaking at the COP?
🤬 Needless to say, the text is complete b/s. Every word in almost every statement is a deliberate lie, written by some uneducated fool.
✳️ Renewable energy is powering many important projects in Africa, but we are yet at <1% of future capacity. Abundant, cheap and decentralized electricity is the future, and for the most African countries the only road is through renewable energy.

👉🏾 Why is it important that crazy American conservatives are messing with green energy in Africa?
☝🏾Simple reason - it is evident now that green energy in Africa becomes an ideological issue in USA. There are huge opportunities and certain risks connected to this fact.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/africas-path-to-energy-prosperity-is-with-free-markets-not-eco-colonialism/
16 September 2022
08:35
TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia

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✳️Unlimited supply of FREE fuel
✳️Super-safe and cheap gas stations
✳️Extremely simple fuel logistics
✳️Zero-emissions, zero-noise, almost no maintenance

❌$2 billion of foreign currency EVERY year
❌Only 13 fuel depots for huge country = logistics nightmare
❌90 days per year rural roads are impassable for heavy trucks with fuel
❌Dirty, smelly, deadly exhaust fumes, especially from old cars.

👉🏾Is there ANY reason why 🇪🇹Ethiopia does not generate abundant solar electricity and use it to power every car, bus, truck, “bajaj” and tractor?

(Photo is taken yesterday on Mickey Leland Street in Addis — two electric cars are exhibited by a car dealer)
21 September 2022
08:38
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Government of 🇪🇹Ethiopia have announced great tax incentives for ⚡️electric cars couple weeks ago, and this is already working.

😎 Tesla Model 3 on a street in Bole, Addis. Looks nice, doesn’t it?

#ethiopia #solarpower
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22 September 2022
08:37
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I understand that 💧water bottling industry in 🇪🇹Ethiopia is on a brink of survival as they cannot get foreign currency to import plastic bottles.

😱Can somebody enlighten me - why we don’t see collectors of empty plastic bottles at the every corner of every street paying us 5 birr for an 🍼empty bottle?
23 September 2022
08:51
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If countries were people…

🇨🇳China is like professional football player who is using twice as many energy as an average person. Large supply of electricity (1.57 GWp per 1 million people) supports heavy industries, abundant mining, processing of minerals and advanced urbanization.

🇻🇳Vietnam is an average person who uses an average amount of energy (0.74 GWp per 1 million people). An average “country-person” has diversified industries, energy-supported agriculture, some urban life and decent balance between imports and exports.

🇪🇹Ethiopia is an unfortunate “country-person" who consumes as little calories as one large apple per day (0.04 GWp per 1 million people). Ethiopia as a country cannot develop, obtain food security and energy security without ten-fold increase in energy generation.

🔺We need to change this situation ASAP! Decentralized off-grid 🔆solar generation can be built at every farm, every industry, every hospital and university.
27 September 2022
08:33
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🇪🇹Ethiopian electricity consumption could be bigger, correct?
There is some context, in the form of a list of business consumers of electricity and Ethiopia:
1. Samsung - 22,900,000 MWh
2. TSMC - 16,058,000 MWh
3. Google - 12,237,000 MWh
4. Ethiopia (120 million people) - 11,400,000 MWh
5. Microsoft - 10,244,000 MWh
6. Intel - 7,170,000 MWh
7. Facebook - 7,170,000 MWh

✳️ We have to change this situation as soon as possible. The great country of 120 million people should not have less electricity that Google.
28 September 2022
08:37
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🇨🇳 China plans to build 450 GW of wind and solar power in Gobi desert by 2030 - that’s more than twice the total amount of solar and wind power installed in the 🇺🇸USA. Chinese industry has overwhelming capacity to service such ambitious project.

🏝 Gobi desert lays at a border between 🇨🇳China (Chinese province of Inner Mongolia) and country of 🇲🇳Mongolia. Electricity will have to be transported about 2000 kilometers to largest Chinese electricity consumers at the Pacific coast.

🔺 Just 15 years ago such plan won’t be realistic because of bottlenecks in the electric grid infrastructure. Since then China have invested 80-90 billion USD to build world-leading system of ultra high voltage (direct current and alternate current) transmission lines that operate at voltages of 800-1000 kV.

🔺 Total Chinese installed capacity: 2380 GW.
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29 September 2022
08:36
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"The Reporter" wrote a piece of two industrial parks in 🌼Addis (17.09.2022). Those parks: Kilinto Industrial Park and Bole-Lemi II Industrial Park “despite being 98% completed four years ago have been stalled for years due to power issues…” The article mentions multiple 💵 many-million-dollars payments to enable electricity supply to both parks but have failed to do so. Kilinto park was supposed to get 200 MW and Bole Lemi II - 134 MW (side note: this is too much of a promise, about 15% of EEU’s “wheeling capacity” for the whole 🇪🇹Ethiopia).

As a 🔆solar energy businessman and a person who believes in decentralized off-grid energy solutions I couldn’t help myself but thought os a simple solar energy installation that would resolve this energy issue.
Both parks are specialized for ✳️ pharmaceutical and medical factories that have to be build by standards set by Federal Drug Authority, so IPDC does not build sheds, providing future tenants with infrastructure underground. Both parks are sitting on huge land plots: Kilinto Park - 279 hectares; Bole Lemi II Park - 181 hectares.

🔆 Solar energy installations can be deployed in several steps, and I would suggest IPDC to start with 30 MW generation* per each industrial park. About 2-5 MW shall be used for water treatment, sewage systems, communications, etc. while the rest is to be provided to tenants. In order to generate 30 MW we will need ~67,000 solar panels each taking 2 sq.m. — the area of 134,000 sq.m., or 13.4 hectares (5-8% of parks’ territories).Extra electricity generation is to be built on rooftops of tenants’ sheds as well as on rooftops of technical buildings of industrial parks.

*-This is extreme simplification. In real life we don’t provide “XX MW” but rather “YY MWh”, and calculations are different. Happy to talk details.
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🔆 Solar energy just became 22% better, as today the Ministry of Trade and Regional announced new tariffs, effective immediately. Diesel oil, a predominant source of 🇪🇹Ethiopian electricity, now costs 59.9 birr per liter.

😃If you think that diesel oil would not get more expensive - think again, please.
In 🇰🇪Kenya the price is $1.3. And we all know the real exchange rate 😎
30 September 2022
08:38
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“Paradox [ ˈper-ə-ˌdäks]: an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises”. *

🔺Statement by Ato Moges Mekonnen, EEP: “We have made ready all our units for holiday season and made available up to 3,200 MW energy capacities, and the estimation consumption for this season was 2,700 MW, while the actual usage was 2,500 MW”. **

🔺 The only conclusion that I can derive from this statement is that 🇪🇹Ethiopia left unused 20% of generated energy.

🤯Can somebody help me to understand what “valid deduction from acceptable premises” may I draw from this?
🤯Why every business in Ethiopia struggles with deficit of electricity (and everyone burns expensive and dirty diesel), while EEP has 20% electricity unused?

* Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
** Capital newspaper (#1242, 25/09/2022)

#solarpower #ethiopia @10 Green Gigawatt
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6 October 2022
08:36
TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia
🇪🇹Ethiopian ⚡️Energy Abundance — these 3 simple words define strategic goal of “10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia”.
Professor and religious scholar James Carse (1932-2020) would call our business plan “an infinite game”.
What does it mean, and why it is important for our partners, investors, and customers?

🔺Small book “Finite and Infinite Games” written by Professor Carse in 1986 have introduced important dichotomy between finite and infinite. “Finite games are played by known players. They have fixed rules. And there is agreed-upon objective that, when reached, ends the game… In finite games, there is always a beginning, a middle and an end. Infinite games, in contrast, are played by known and unknown players. Infinite games have infinite time horizons. And because there is no finish line, no practical end to the game, there is no such thing as "winning" an infinite game. In an infinite game, the primary objective is to perpetuate the game.”

🔺In 2019 Simon Sinek - one of the most important business thought leaders - published book “The Infinite Game” where he looks at Carse’s work from business point of view. Simon starts his book with a preface titled WHY I WROTE THIS: “It’s surprising that this book even needs to exist. Over the course of human history, we have seen the benefits of infinite thinking so many times. The rise of great societies, advancements in science and medicine and the exploration of space all happened because large groups of people, united in common cause, chose to collaborate with no clear end in sight. We did these things not because of the promise of an end-of-year bonus; we did these things because we felt like we were contributing to something bigger than ourselves, something with value that would last well beyond our own lifetimes.”

🔺Goal as ambitious and daring as Energy Abundance is certainly an “infinite” goal, therefore our company will be looking into adjacent topics such as e-mobility, scenarios for productive energy use in agriculture and agro-processing and other.

✳️ Join us in our journey! We are interested in strong partners among financial organizations, commercial farmers, industrialists as well as private equity and angel investors. The road to Ethiopian Energy Abundance is a long one, plan for a long trip.
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7 October 2022
08:48
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Coca-Cola is building plastic bottle collection centers across Ethiopia. So far they have built and gave to people 2️⃣4️⃣ centers. The one in the photo is in Sebeta city.

♥️ This project definitely increases employment and helps to protect the environment but it can also help local communities in other ways.

I am a 🔆 solar person, as you already know :-) When a solar person sees 200 square meter rooftop there is just one thought: solar panels can be placed there. I would put 40 photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) panels and 30 high-performance photovoltaic (PV) panels. This way we will generate 30+ kWp and more than enough hot water.

🔺Such solution will provide abundant electricity for processing of plastic bottles: sorting, shredding, packing, as well as hot water for washing bottles before processing. Actually, this amount of electricity would be excessive for PET processing, and this collection center can also act as 🥶cold storage center for the community, or run small 🧃agro processing, provide 📡shared internet connection, operate a 🍾Coca-Cola kiosk, support 🔦street lighting, et cetera.
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11 October 2022
08:37
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🐟 Fish farm in Kiryat Byalik, Northern Israel.
🔺 5,100 solar panels from Tier 1 manufacturer.
🗯 2,800 kW installed capacity.
⚡️ The generated electricity supports core business processes and makes money for the owner of installation by feeding excess electricity back into national energy grid.

Pumps – for water refill and replenishment
Automated Aeration Devices – oxygen supply
Compressors – flow management
Seine Reels – herd selection
Handling and Grading Equipment – logistics
Automatic feeders

The project took 3️⃣ weeks to design and prepare and less than 3️⃣ months to install and connect.

#ethiopia #solarpower
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12 October 2022
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🐥 Poultry farm in Kadesh Barnea, South Israel.
🔺 5,000 solar panels from Tier 1 manufacturer.
🗯 2,800 kW installed capacity.
⚡️ The generated electricity supports core business processes and makes money for the owner of installation by feeding excess electricity back into national energy grid.

The project took 3️⃣ weeks to design and prepare and less than 3️⃣ months to install and connect.

#solarpower #ethiopia
13 October 2022
08:37
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🔹 DREAM (Decentralized Renewable Energy for Agricultural Modality) is a multi-million dollar project to bring 🔆solar-generated energy to Ethiopian agriculture - primarily for irrigation. The project was launched on Tuesday at a grand event at Hyatt Regency Addis.

🔸 First 9 project sites are already identified and will be developed starting immediately. Next “batch” of 100 projects will follow.

🔺It is important to understand that there are at least 2️⃣0️⃣ million farmers in Ethiopia. There is no single solution or program that will transform their lives and agriculture practice but the change have to be gradual and persistent. This way we will increase agricultural exports of Ethiopia tenfold and ensure significant value addition.
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14 October 2022
09:17
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Climate change-related risks for 🇪🇹Ethiopia are not assessed in details but are significant, at least.

🔺National Bank of Ethiopia can play important role in Ethiopia’s advancement towards ✳️ zero-carbon ⚡️energy abundance that will help to mitigate risks for climate change.

🔺NBE’s tools:
⁃ loan provisions
⁃ forex allocation and priorities
⁃ regulations on leasing

☝🏾South African Reserve Bank have published a study on climate change and its implications for central banks
https://www.resbank.co.za/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/working-papers/2020/10001

☝🏾 Centre for Economic Policy Research debates whether Central banks should engage into climate change-related issues (spoiler: they should)
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/climate-change-and-central-banks-case-violating-neutrality
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18 October 2022
08:38
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🛑No more forex for cars, bajajes, furniture and chocolate: National Bank of Ethiopia have decided that it won’t allow foreign currency exchange that is purposed for import of 4️⃣0️⃣ items that NBE likes to be produced locally (or smuggled illegally into the country).

👩🏿‍⚕️First of all, we have to applaud NBE’s focus on making us healthy: sweets, alcohol, cigarettes and cars are unquestionably 🙅🏾bad. Treadmills, weights, vitamins and motivational videos are permitted (so far), so we are 😇good here.

☝🏾On a more serious note: bold statement from NBE confirms two things: Government is serious about forcing local production and Government is serious about “green development” - forex for electric cars and electric bajajes is allowed.

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Every parent knows that you need to complement negative reinforcement with positive stimuli.

Young 🇪🇹Ethiopian “green economy” will be thankful for NBE to put 🔆solar at the same forex priority list as 🛢️diesel; establishing provisions for using 🔆solar installations as loan collateral; simplify imports of 🔆solar components and undertaking several other initiatives.

🌞Let us put Ethiopian sun to work for Ethiopian prosperity!

#solarpower #ethiopia @10 Green Gigawatt
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19 October 2022
08:37
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🥂I would suggest that couple hundreds (thousands?) people have opened a vintage bottle of 🍾Veuve Clicquot by the lunchtime last Friday when 🏦NBE have published a list of “forbidden imports”*.

Everyone who is producing those items in 🇪🇹Ethiopia won’t be facing competition from import goods “for an indefinite period”.

🔺My post is addressed to this group of very happy people.

🔺Dear producers of
1. Candies, gums and other delicious preparations
2. Chocolate
3. Crackers and Wafers
4. Fruit juices and canned fruits, fruit jams, potato chips
5. Bottled waters, soft drinks and non-alcoholic beverages
6. Whiskey, wine, beer and all other alcoholic beverages
7. Cigarettes
8. Parfumes and Eau de Toilettes
9. Beauty or make-up preparations
10. Soaps
11. Firevorks
12. Purses and "wallets".
13. Cards with printed illustrations
14. Calendar calendars
15. Pictures (including murals)
16. Hats and caps
17. Artificial flowers
18. Human and artificial hair
19. Artificial jewelry
20. Assembled motor vehicles and tricycles (excluding those powered by electric motors)
21. Assembled motorcycles (excluding those powered by electric motors)
22. Household and office furniture classified under tariff headings 9401 to 9403
23. Cycles
24. Table salt
25. Wrist, table and wall clocks
26. Umbrellas
27. Carpets
28. Pork meats
29. Chicken meat
30. Tunas, sardines and other fish products
31. Various canned foods except baby food and milk
32. Ceramic and porcelain
33. Gas lighter
34. Various hair ornaments
35. Mannequins
36. Glass vases

…please remember that you need more ⚡️electricity for your production facilities that you can reliably get from the grid.

🔆Solar installation is much cheaper than 🛢diesel generator and it is ✳️much better for 🇪🇹Ethiopia.

🌞Let us put Ethiopian sun to work for Ethiopian prosperity!

* Of course, they are not forbidden to import. Companies just cannot go to official forex market to purchase foreign currency for importing them.
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20 October 2022
08:37
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🧙‍♂️The Conference Board just published it’s Global Economic Outlook, 2000-2035.
📈Projected GDP growth for USA is 0%, Europe - 0.1%, Japan - 1.3%. Average growth for “mature economics” - 0.4%.

🔺This is obviously recession, and I feel that Western recession is a good thing for 🔆solar energy in 🇪🇹Ethiopia.

🔸 Western recession is good for 🇪🇹Ethiopian economy for two reasons:
1️⃣people and companies will need cheaper things, and we can realize our cost advantage
2️⃣people and companies will be looking to expand outside of recession zone, and we are outside

🔺African Development Bank promises us 5.7% economic growth in 2023, and 99% of this growth will be supported by expanding energy supply to 🇪🇹Ethiopian economy. Sectors like farming, agro processing, industries, mining, tourism - all need electricity to strive and grow, and every one of those sectors can use off-grid 🔆solar energy as a sole source of electricity.

🌞Let us put Ethiopian sun to work for Ethiopian prosperity!

* The Conference Board is the global, nonprofit think tank and business membership organization that was founded in 1915. It’s mission is to deliver cutting-edge research, data, events and executive networks to help world's leading companies to understand the present and shape the future.
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21 October 2022
09:00
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✳️ “Green” hydrogen is a simple idea: you generate “green” electricity (i.e. electricity from solar, wind, hydro or geothermal sources - AKA renewable energy sources), then use this electricity for electrolysis - take a lot of water and split in into oxygen and hydrogen.

💋 Beauty of hydrogen is also simple: it can be used as a source of energy that is not causing environment damage and climate change.

🛵 Transporting hydrogen is less simple: you should either compress it at 700 bar (equal to placing something under 4km of cement) or cool it to -253 degrees, and then transport the resulted product.

🟣 This endeavor takes crazy amount of ⚡️energy and lots of 💧water — both scarce and precious resources. No wonder that some bright minds devised a “brilliant” idea of using African sources of “green” energy and African water to produce “green” hydrogen and then export it to energy-hungry Europe.

🟢 Handling of hydrogen is very expensive: compressing/freezing facilities cost hundreds of millions of dollars, same applies to loading/unloading terminals and very special ships. The only way to make hydrogen projects viable is to make them huge.

🟠 Introducing 🇳🇦Namibia Green Hydrogen Projects: a family of 🔆solar-powered hydrogen businesses with the same core idea: use vast hyper-arid gravel plains and dunes that stretches along Namibia's entire coastline to build gigantic solar power plants, take water from Atlantic Ocean and enjoy a lot of exportable “green” hydrogen.

🔵 Does 🇪🇹Ethiopia need to produce and export “green” hydrogen?

🔴 No.

🟡 There are 80-100 million 🇪🇹Ethiopian farmers, good amount of underground💧water and abundant⚡️solar energy. Water and energy shall serve farmers, help to avoid droughts and make Ethiopian agriculture productive and highly profitable. 🇪🇹Ethiopia needs projects like DREAM that bring irrigation and agro processing to farmers.

🌞Let us put Ethiopian sun to work for Ethiopian prosperity!
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25 October 2022
09:20
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🇨🇳 Why 20th congress of Chinese communists is good for 🔆solar energy in 🇪🇹Ethiopia.

🟠 In two-hour speech at the Congress 🧑🏻‍⚖️Chairman Xi mentioned Africa exactly 0️⃣ times.

🔵 The mighty “Bridges and Roads Initiative” that were once estimated at $11,000,000,000,000 (11 trillion dollars) was only mentioned once, as a part of a glorious history of Communist Party of China.

🔴 There is a very good chance that we won’t see any more vast infrastructure projects financed by Chinese state-owned banks and executed by Chinese state-owned construction companies, as this activity was never mentioned in Chairman’s speech.

🟣Xi Jingpin have stressed that “China has become a major trading partner for more than 140 countries and regions, it leads the world in total volume of trade in goods”, and we should be certain that Chinese exports will keep coming, supported with all strength of one of the largest economies in the world.

🟢 Chairman Xi have also confirmed his resolve to ”… deeply promote the energy revolution, … accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system, and actively participate in addressing climate change and global governance”. This means that China will remain the largest market for solar panels, inverters and batteries, and Chinese firms will enjoy great benefits of production scale.

🟡 Benefits for Ethiopian solar energy market are two-fold: 1️⃣ there would be abundance of supply of inexpensive equipment; 2️⃣ there would be no politically-motivated gigantic projects that distract attention from practical and realistic business cases.
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26 October 2022
09:40
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✳️ We all remember Clubhouse as one of COVID symptoms: few month of high fever that subsided rapidly leaving us disturbed and puzzled (“what was it?”). Founded and supported by elites of 🇺🇸Silicon Valley, the company have experienced meteoric raise in popularity and in funding.

💰 Funding is still there (CEO Paul Davison have said last week that they have “years of cash in the bank”) while 🙋🏾‍♀️popularity is gone.

👯‍♀️ Nowadays every social media have their own “Clubhouse”. First was Telegram (the whole career of Pavel Durov is built upon stealing things), then Twitter, then Spotify, then Facebook.

🖇 LinkedIn have joined this “homegrown Clubhouse initiative” this year, calling it “Audio Events” and advertising this feature.

🔺Here is my QUESTION: would you be interested to join Clubhouse-style “Audio Event” on my page - to talk about 🟡solar energy in 🇪🇹Ethiopia?

🔺Please leave your comment below.
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27 October 2022
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😺It is rare when something ultra-modern, nice and fancy is also the most practical, economical and viable solution, improving lives of tens of millions of people. And that is truth for electric three-wheeled transport (⚡️electric 🚙“bajaj”).

🔸Practicality. Owner/driver of⚡️electric 🚙 “bajaj” in rural town will not depend on supply of petrol, and the reliability of electric vehicles is much higher because they have less moving parts.

🔹Profitability.⚡️Electric 🚙 “bajaj” with swappable batteries can be “fueled” in minutes, saving precious time for driver and allowing for more passenger trips, thus generating revenue.

🔸 Bankability. Every⚡️electric 🚙 “bajaj” shall be equipped with GPS tracker and remote controller so bank or leasing company will have full control over it, and therefore can safely finance this asset.

🟡Charging of electric transport should be supported by 🔆solar energy. This way we would be able to build charging stations anywhere in 🇪🇹Ethiopia, including places where there is no regular supply of petrol.
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28 October 2022
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1 November 2022
07:37
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🔴 There is NO African country among members of International ⚡️Energy Agency. The developing world is delegated to a group of “IEA association countries”, but only 3 countries (Egypt, South Africa and Morocco) represent a region of 54 African countries.

🟣 Therefore we should not be surprised to see that IEA’s 524-pages report “World Energy Outlook - 2022” does not really talk about the world but rather about “Global North” - an approximately 20% of world population. “Global North” and especially good old Europe is certainly going through very challenging period, as strong reliance on Russian natural gas have backfired, and there is no easy way around this problem.

🟢 Unsurprisingly, Russia is mentioned ~250 times, natural gas ~350 times and Africa ~150 times. The “World Energy Outlook” talks about energy transitions, climate change, net zero emission pledge, “1.5 degree Celsius goal”, cost inflation, clean manufacturing, and many-many of other concepts. Each concept is supported by data, deep analysis of dynamics and projections, bright infographics, etc.

🟡 When it comes to emerging markets, especially our Sub-Saharan Africa, the difference is striking: no analysis, no data, no quantified predictions. “Energy demand will be huge”, “electricity will take big part in energy consumption”…

✳️ 99.9% of the “World Energy Outlook” is irrelevant for 🇪🇹Ethiopia. We don’t depend on Russian natural gas, we have never bought Russian oil, our emissions are minuscule, “energy transition” has no place in our energy system, as we are yet to develop strong energy supply.

🔆 Solar off-grid large-scale commercial and industrial (C&I) solutions will help 🇪🇹Ethiopia to achieve decentralized energy abundance at scale that is not known to “World Energy Outlook - 2022”.

🌞Let us put Ethiopian sun to work for Ethiopian prosperity!

#solarpower #ethiopia @10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia
2 November 2022
07:34
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🟠 We live in year 2022, right? There is no serious scientist today who will deny climate change as a human-made catastrophe in the making, which biggest cause is burning of the fossil fuel.

Fossil fuels are not 😈 evil, of course. They are a great source of energy, well-researched and highly efficient. For couple hundred years humanity is using fossil fuels and became very much addicted to it. 🇪🇹Ethiopia imports 3,7 billion tons of petroleum products alone, and spends more than $3 billion 💵 on it.

🟢 Good news is that we do not have to import more and more oil every year. There are other sources of energy, and we don’t need to spend precious dollars on them.

🟡 Ethiopian sun, 🔵 Ethiopian rivers, 🟣 Ethiopian geothermal energy - those are our home-grown sources of energy, and we will live happy and prosperous life developing those types of energy, and relegating important fossil fuels to industries where there are no economical alternatives.

👹 Please explain me why Ethiopian Investment Holdings is investing substantial money into oil terminal?
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3 November 2022
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TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia

🔵 Have you read on every relevant website that 🇪🇹Ethiopia generates 97% of it’s ⚡️electricity from renewable sources, mostly hydro?

Well... 🇪🇹Ethiopian hydro power stations generate much less electricity that country desperately needs. And 🇪🇹Ethiopians always take care of themselves. More than 50,000 diesel generators burn diesel oil, a whopping $1 billion worth of diesel oil every year.

🔴 Therefore ~50% of country's electricity is generated by burning 🛢️diesel oil. Ethiopia emits _3.5 million_ ton of CO2 every year while burning diesel oil for electricity.

🔆 Do you see why we need abundant off-grid solar electricity generation?

🌞Let us put Ethiopian sun to work for Ethiopian prosperity!

#solarpower #ethiopia @10 Green Gigawatt
4 November 2022
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🟡 Did you know that Rishi Sunak supports ✳️agrivoltaic? He is mostly likely unaware himself. Nevertheless…

☝🏾“I want to be clear that I believe that the environment and farming can and must go hand in hand. They are two sides of the same coin. If we want to maintain and boost our food security, we must take care of the natural assets that support it, such as soil.” - in an interview for Conservative Environment Network.

🤘🏾“We will not lose swathes of our best farmland to solar farms,” and that rewilding “should not take place at the expense of food production”. - article in The Telegraph.

🇬🇧 Brother Rishi is of East African Indian origin (his Indian mother was born in Tanzania, his Indian father was born in Kenya). There should be no surprise that he loves both soil and sun. 🌞We all do.

🔆Let us put Ethiopian sun to work for Ethiopian prosperity!
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6 November 2022
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Great picture by Milkyas Abdulkerim on LinkedIn. Great and hard work by our 🇪🇹 farmers.

🔺But we are yet to irrigate farms, import modern seedlings, use organic fertilizers — and our fruit stalls will look like ones in 🇮🇱Israel.

🔆Let us put Ethiopian sun to work for Ethiopian prosperity!
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8 November 2022
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👨🏾‍🦰Thank you, @Alessandro Blasi for pointing out unequivocal truth about energy in Africa!

☹️ Only 340 Africans out of 1,415,569,164 have liked the post.

🌞Let us put Ethiopian sun to work for Ethiopian prosperity!

#solarpower #ethiopia @10 Green Gigawatt
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Dear industrialists located in BISHOFTU.

☝🏾I will be tomorrow in your nice city, happy to talk about solar generation for your factories.

🔆 Solar generation is much cheaper than diesel in long term (up to 6 times), and there are financing mechanisms available from Ethiopian banks.

🔺Please comment here or message me on Telegram @Mikael10G.
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28 November 2022
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🇪🇹Irrigation. Horticulture. Oromia.

☝🏾Farmer spends 15 million Birr on diesel oil to fill this reservoir with water, and to push the water to irrigate 40 hectares of horticulture (in 5 years).

✌🏾There is a good chance that oil price will increase and farmer will be spending 20 million Birr for same purpose.

👉🏾 We at 10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia can design, engineer, supply and install solar generation for you for less than 15 million Birr.
29 November 2022
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🧑🏾‍🚀When Egyptian slaves were building magnificent pyramids for dead pharaohs the only energy known to human civilization was the muscle energy.

🔸Very little amount of kilowatt-hours was generated from coarse bread, boiled meat and fresh dates - sad diet of slaves. But job was done, and no CO2 was emitted.

🔹Fast forward 3500 years. Humans build palaces, pave roads, get water to fields, mill flour, etc. with almost no slave power but rather with powered tools. Most of tools are powered with oil products (petrol, diesel, etc.), and a lot of CO2 is being emitted thus killing our planet.

🔺Let us go back to times when humanity was creating magnificent projects without CO2 emissions. We just need to use electrical tools, devices, machines AND use clean energy to generate electricity.

🔆 Bright 🇪🇹Ethiopian sun, 330 days of abundant 🟡sunshine, smart engineers and careful workers - we have everything to become green energy superpower and create magnificent buildings, companies, new markets and businesses!
30 November 2022
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🌳Ethiopian forests are epitome of abundance. Nothing in the world can be compared to calm, green, immense woodlands that cover our land.

🇪🇹Ethiopian forests absorb CO2 and help the world to mitigate climate change.
 
🌍Abundant natural resource meets abundant human energy, and this is Green Legacy Initiative launched by Dr. Abiy Ahmed. This Initiative was started in 2020 and will result in 20 billion trees to be planted before 2025.

🌴Reforestation of Ethiopia has a long way to go: Ethiopia has lost 98% of its forested areas in the last 50 years. According to the UN, forest coverage fell to just over 4% during the 2000s, down from 35% in the early 20th century.
 
🔆Abundant task of reforestation meets in Ethiopia with abundant deficit of electricity. If we fail to complement this activity with development of renewable off-grid electricity generation for rural farms and villages, newly planted trees will be cut and burned for cooking.
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1 December 2022
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👧🏾 One of the most enlightening projects is “Ethiopian School Meal Initiative”. It was created by Frealem Shibabaw, and later expanded by Ethiopian Government, international development agencies and Mayor of Addis.

☝🏾“Eureka moment” came for Frealem when she realized that a 5-year old kid was attending school with an empty lunch box - because his family can't afford to give lunch for a school day, and he didn't want to draw attention.

🥙 Now city administrations and development agencies are supplying school lunches for children in primary schools, thus fighting malnutrition and eliminating one of barriers for development.

🔵 More than 50% of primary schools in Ethiopia don’t have ⚡️electricity. No schooling after dark, no internet access at school, no computers. For many kids it means no school at all, as they help parents during daytime.

🔆 Ethiopia was able to create “School Meal Initiative”, so we can build a “Solar School Initiative”. Let us give every off-grid rural school enough electricity for lighting and internet connection.
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2 December 2022
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🔺January 3, 2022 will be remembered in history as a day when startup founders were reminded that biotechnologies are different from information technologies. On 3rd of January 👧 Liz Holmes, founder of Theranos, was found guilty.

🔺Liz did same things that every famous founder of every famous startup: she believed in her idea, under-delivered her pilot product, created strong “reality distortion field” and did not stop when things were not going according to plan.

🔺First version of blood-testing machine built by Theranos had the same problem as first version of iPhone: it was very very bad blood-testing machine, as iPhone was very very bad phone.

🔺If Theranos would be IT startup it would develop next version, or pivot to another business model, or switch to other architecture… But Theranos wasn’t an IT startup, it was a medical device startup and there were real people who received wrong results of their blood tests from very bad blood testing machine that Liz Holmes designed.

🔺I doubt that after release of first iPhone any Apple employee wanted to talk to journalists and reveal how bad a phone it was. Bad phones do not put people’s lives at risk. But bad blood tests are bad for patients, and Theranos’s employee talked to John Carreyrow of The Wall Street Journal, and in two years Theranos was destroyed along with $945 millions of investors’ money.

🔺Disgraced and convicted Liz Holmes is unlikely to find solace in a fact that court have found her not guity in defrauding Theranos patients. There were 11 charges levied against Holmes, and she was found guilty for 4 of them — “defrauding investors”.

🔺Liz Holmes was essentially convicted of being too optimistic when communicating with three funds who invested about 15% of all money. Her company was not a public company, and shares were not offered to general public. People who invested in Theranos had no reason to think that their investment is safe: no big-name venture capital firm have ever invested in Theranos.

🔺On 25th of November Liz Holmes was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison. Her sentence starts on April 27 next year - by that time she will be mother of two children: a newborn (she is pregnant now) and 2-year old.

🟢 Two lessons here: (1) it is never a good idea to lie to investors; (2) don’t think that you can do wrong things because other people do wrong things - there is always a chance that someone will make you an example.

⚠️ When you start new enterprise, ask yourself if your miscalculations or misconceptions can be harmful to people, and be always mindful of this.
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5 December 2022
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Is farmer who grows small mango less happy than farmer who grows large mango?
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Is farmer who grows large mango makes more money than farmer who grows small mango? 👍🏾

Will abundant solar energy help abundant irrigation help grow large mango?
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6 December 2022
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🇪🇹Irrigation. Horticulture. Oromia.

☝🏾Farmer spends 15 million Birr on diesel oil to fill this reservoir with water, and to push the water to irrigate 40 hectares of horticulture (in 5 years).

✌🏾There is a good chance that oil price will increase and farmer will be spending 20 million Birr for same purpose.

👉🏾 We at 10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia can design, engineer, supply and install solar generation for you for less than 15 million Birr.
7 December 2022
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<unpublished interview>

Q1: Ethiopia has major plans beyond hydropower including solar. Will Ethiopia become a regional power in green energy? What are the obstacles?

Ethiopia has great energy potential for solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy. The amount of energy Ethiopia can produce is virtually unlimited. Still, energy delivery infrastructure (“wheeling” capacity, in energy-talk) is almost non-existent in the region, especially when we look at connection between countries. Vast distances and complicated landscapes make development of such infrastructure prohibitively costly. I personally don’t believe in centralized energy production and expansive energy distribution, I think future lays in decentralized energy systems.

Q2: As you look at Africa overall, with its huge solar potential (and green hydrogen investments), will that translate into international influence as we saw with Middle East oil-producing countries? What are two or three challenges?

I expect that the era of “international energy influence” will end within this decade. Nuclear-enabled Europe won’t need outside energy supply. It is hard to see how energy-dense countries (90% of Europe, Japan, etc.) can survive without baseline energy generation that is high density - nuclear, large-scale wind or some new technology. The idea of producing “green hydrogen” in Africa and delivering it to Europe is so colonial that it is insulting. 
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🇪🇹Good day, Addis. How you’ve been? I’ve missed you a lot 🥰
9 December 2022
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😺It is rare when something modern, nice and fancy is also the most practical and economical solution, improving lives of millions of people. And that is electric three-wheeled transport (⚡️electric 🚙“bajaj”).

🔸Practicality. Owner/driver of⚡️electric 🚙 “bajaj” in rural town will not depend on supply of petrol, and the reliability of electric vehicles is much higher because they have less moving parts.

🔹Profitability.⚡️Electric 🚙 “bajaj” with swappable batteries can be “fueled” in minutes, saving precious time for driver and allowing for more passenger trips, thus generating revenue.

🔸 Bankability. Every⚡️electric 🚙 “bajaj” shall be equipped with GPS tracker and remote controller so bank or leasing company will have full control over it, and therefore can safely finance this asset.

🟡Charging of electric transport should be supported by 🔆solar energy. This way we would be able to build charging stations anywhere in 🇪🇹Ethiopia, including places where there is no regular supply of petrol.
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21 December 2022
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🌳Ethiopian forests are epitome of abundance. Nothing in the world can be compared to calm, green, immense woodlands that cover our land.

🇪🇹Ethiopian forests absorb CO2 and help the world to mitigate climate change.
 
🌍Abundant natural resource meets abundant human energy, and this is Green Legacy Initiative launched by Dr. Abiy Ahmed. This Initiative was started in 2020 and will result in 20 billion trees to be planted before 2025.

🌴Reforestation of Ethiopia has a long way to go: Ethiopia has lost 98% of its forested areas in the last 50 years. According to the UN, forest coverage fell to just over 4% during the 2000s, down from 35% in the early 20th century.
 
🔆Abundant task of reforestation meets in Ethiopia with abundant deficit of electricity. If we fail to complement this activity with development of renewable off-grid electricity generation for rural farms and villages, newly planted trees will be cut and burned for cooking.
22 December 2022
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🐣Chicken and egg problem: it makes no business sense to invest into electrical grid when electricity consumption is low, and the electricity consumption is low because grid is in bad condition.

🪙Low energy tariffs don’t help to break out of this conundrum: when utility lacks money to support grid infrastructure, it stays in bad condition.

🔆Solution: off-grid energy generation using solar (photovoltaic) panels.
23 December 2022
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🕺🏿Beautiful story of Fendika (told by Melaku himself) is touching and inspiring at the same time. Transforming huge potential of Ethiopian dancing tradition into artistic, social and business success is only possible with strong dedication and endless passion.

🇪🇹 Ethiopian agriculture have to follow steps of Melaku: transform great potential of Ethiopian sun into electrical energy, and electrical energy into irrigation, cooling, washing, milling, drying, etc. etc. Productive agriculture will lead to prosperous living, we just need passion, dedication, great engineering and quality solar equipment.
28 December 2022
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Addis airport cafe is obviously an ardent fan of a great book “Zero to One” by PayPal co-founder multi-billionaire Peter Thiel.

In his book Thiel writes: “The perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular people concentrated together and served by few or no competitors”.

Sunshine Retail PLC answers: “Oh, yeah. We will sell water to people in the airport. Airport security will take water bottles from them when they enter the airport so there is zero competition from outside vendors”.

Peter Thiel: “All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem”.

Sunshine Retail PLC: “Oh, we are the happiest people on Earth as we sell small bottle of water for 106 Birr”.
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9 January 2023
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Last Friday/Saturday 🇪🇹 Ethiopia have celebrated Christmas.
Christmas was the most important celebration to great Joseph Brodsky. “Christmas 1971”:

When it’ s Christmas we’ re all of us magi.
At the grocers’ all slipping and pushing.
Where a tin of halvah, coffee-flavored,
is the cause of a human assault-wave
by a crowd heavy-laden with parcels:
each one his own king, his own camel.

Nylon bags, carrier bags, paper cones,
caps and neckties all twisted up sideways.
Reek of vodka and resin and cod,
orange mandarins, cinnamon, apples.
Floods of faces, no sign of a pathway
toward Bethlehem, shut off by blizzard.

And the bearers of moderate gifts
leap on buses and jam all the doorways,
disappear into courtyards that gape,
though they know that there’ s nothing inside there:
not a beast, not a crib, nor yet her,
round whose head gleams a nimbus of gold.

Emptiness. But the mere thought of that
brings forth lights as if out of nowhere.
Herod reigns but the stronger he is,
the more sure, the more certain the wonder.
In the constancy of this relation
is the basic mechanics of Christmas.

That’ s what they celebrate everywhere,
for its coming push tables together.
No demand for a star for a while,
but a sort of good will touched with grace
can be seen in all men from afar,
and the shepherds have kindled their fires.

Snow is falling: not smoking but sounding
chimney pots on the roof, every face like a stain.
Herod drinks. Every wife hides her child.
He who comes is a mystery: features
are not known beforehand, men’s hearts may
not be quick to distinguish the stranger.

But when drafts through the doorway disperse
the thick mist of the hours of darkness
and a shape in a shawl stands revealed,
both a newborn and Spirit that’s Holy
in your self you discover; you stare
skyward, and it’s right there:
a star.
10 January 2023
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TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia

🧑🏾‍🎄2 weeks before the end of 2022 the World Bank have approved two large projects for Ethiopia:

☝🏾445 million dollars for restoring health services to conflict-affected areas - the project will provide lifesaving health services for 22 million women and children.

✌🏾300 million dollars for The Flood Management Project, aimed at enhancing Ethiopia’s resilience to climate-related shocks, as well as improve its ability to better respond to and manage disasters and flood risks.

Needless to say, both project provide strongest opportunity to allow both health sector as well as disaster management services to switch to clean, cheap and sustainable off-grid 🔆 solar energy.
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11 January 2023
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Of course I agree with Firew’s post.

But I am at loss — how imported plastic grass can make any 💵 economical sense for buyers?

Or this is product imported specifically for stupid 🧟‍♂️evildoers?
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🗣️ One of the most dumb things people do on LinkedIn is to start “small talk” with strangers who they see as prospective customers.

🗣️ Why this is stupid? The reason is simple: nobody has free time to engage in empty conversations with some wanderer.

🗣️ This manner is not only idiotic it’s also detrimental to your business: a person who you have tried to contact will now be annoyed by you, and negative towards your offer.

😎 LinkedIn and AI algorithms do great job protecting our valuable time. I have lived through such a dialog without writing a single word: 100% of texts were suggested by application :-)
12 January 2023
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🧐The Reporter have published a very interesting text by @Ashenafi Endale on the 2nd part of the Homegrown Economic Reform (I would suggest to brand it “Great Ethiopian Economic Renaissance Reform”).

It will consist of two major components:☝🏾free floating of national currency and✌🏾opening wholesale, supply, and retail markets to international market participants.

This reform will be a game changer for Ethiopian solar energy industry for four reasons:

1️⃣foreign investors in energy field will be more comfortable to invest

2️⃣substantially increased oil price will put diesel generators put of competition for off-grid energy

3️⃣increased import prices for electric machinery will push Government to increase electricity tariffs

4️⃣International companies in wholesale, supply and retail business will be open to engage in solar energy projects

https://www.thereporterethiopia.com/29534/
13 January 2023
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🇪🇹 Ethiopian GDP:
2002: $7.8b
2012: $43.3b
2021: $111.2b

🤪 14x in 19 years! Within the same period coffee prices increased 4x, oil (Brent) 3x.

via @Zemedeneh Negatu and Belete Bantero

#solarpower #ethiopia @10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia #goodnews
22 January 2023
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🎉 Chinese New Year 2023 starts on Sunday, January 22nd, 2023, and first week of celebration in a public holiday in People’s Republic of China. New Year’s celebration will culminate with the Lantern Festival on February 5th, 2023. The Lantern Festival has own symbolism and deep meaning, and certainly deserves a separate post.

👹 Legend says that a monster named Nian is coming on the eve of every New Year’s. So it is no surprise that everyone celebrating Chinese New Year is setting off firecrackers at midnight. In the morning, firecrackers are used again to welcome the new year and good luck. As you may imagine, this day sees the most of fireworks in the whole year in the whole world.

✳️ Chinese year 2023 will be year of Rabbit (zodiac sign), and of Water (element). What does wet rabbit hold for us?

🐇 Rabbit is fast and steady, friendly and even promiscuous, impulsive and unpredictable. Wet rabbit, I can assume, is little slower and even more promiscuous :-)

🇨🇳 China is one of the most important countries for global solar industry. Almost 80% of solar equipment (panels, inverters, batteries, cables, connectors, other accessories) is made in China. Third of the solar electricity in the world is generated in China: installed capacity is 323 Gigawatt. Many of the best solar companies are located in China: Jinko, Longi, Huawei and lots of others.

🇨🇳 Chinese companies have huge domestic market, but we need them to engage with Ethiopia to help us develop our homegrown electricity generation, that is solar generation.
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23 January 2023
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🇪🇹The single most important number in Ethiopian economy: 2.46%.

👶🏾 It is the growth rate for our population.

🧮 Simple math tells that in just 5 short years Ethiopia will have 10 million new people.
Almost 10 million young people in 5 years will reach age when they need good paying jobs.

In order to keep country peaceful and prosperous we need to bring employment and comfortable life to young people.

💡The only way to achieve this is to grow economy. And growing economy needs abundant electricity.

«10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia» is thinking about 2.46% all the time. Are you?
24 January 2023
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🟡 500MW of solar energy generation was announced last week by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The joint development agreement signed between 🇪🇹Government of Ethiopia and 🇦🇪UAE-government owned renewable energy company Masdar. Very scarce details hint to two separate solar power plants to be built. There is no information about timing and budget.

This project is gigantic for Ethiopia but not very large for Masdar who has $30 billion dollar project portfolio in 40 countries. Largest solar project that Masdar is developing is 2 Gigawatt solar power plant in UAE.

🔺It is impossible to overestimate importance of such project for the country.

☝🏾Additional 500MW of electricity generation is vital for economy.
✌🏾Such massive “proof of concept” for solar energy should influence decision of commercial farmers, miners and rural industrialists to move from diesel-generators to solar.
🤟🏾More educated and experienced solar professionals will be joining Ethiopian workforce.

Still, we would be happy to know details.
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25 January 2023
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🇪🇹Ethiopian fertile land calls for agri-voltaic.

Agri-voltaic approach demands that solar panels are placed above crops so land is not occupied by panels.
26 January 2023
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🟡 In 2022 (just in one year!) the world has built 260GWp of solar electric generation. It is more than the all electricity generation capacity of Germany or France or Canada.

🌍 Africa is lagging far behind, doing just 10-12GWp in 2022, although it will see more than 111GWp in new projects that are currently under development.

🇪🇹Ethiopia has 4MWp of solar generation, while our neighboring 🇰🇪Kenya has more than 240 MW solar installed and very lucrative “feed-in” tariff of 12 cents per kWh. High feed-in tariff means that companies can invest in solar generation and sell generated electricity to local energy utility company.

🔺This information is beautifully presented in “Annual Solar Outlook 2023” by Africa Solar Industry Association.

Document can be found here: http://afsiasolar.com/data-center/outlook-report/

😎 And don’t forget to check page 150 where I am recognized as one of contributors :-)
27 January 2023
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✋🏾Some say that direction is more important than speed. This is very wrong.

🏃🏾‍♂️The key success factor in business is agility, ability to shift course, capacity to adapt, power to change.

📉Most companies and businesspeople are afraid of change, and this is very human. Do you remember how kids dislike new things?

☝🏾Agility never comes easy. Beginners will see it as a danger. Successful entrepreneurs - as a distraction. Small firms are trying hard to appear solid and firm, and ban agility. Large corporations are rigid, self-confident, arrogant, and they ban agility.

🔺You need to be always self-aware and cognizant of your surroundings, market and competition, and always fit to changing landscape.

#ethiopia @10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia
29 January 2023
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Those of us who are still in a Christmas mood will enjoy another great poem by Joseph Brodsky.

== 1 January 1965 ==

The Wise Men will unlearn your name.
Above your head no star will flame.
One weary sound will be the same—
the hoarse roar of the gale.
The shadows fall from your tired eyes
as your lone bedside candle dies,
for here the calendar breeds nights
till stores of candles fail.

What prompts this melancholy key?
A long familiar melody.
It sounds again. So let it be.
Let it sound from this night.
Let it sound in my hour of  death—
as gratefulness of eyes and lips
for that which sometimes makes us lift
our gaze to the far sky.

You glare in silence at the wall.
Your stocking gapes: no gifts at all.
It's clear that you are now too old
to trust in good Saint Nick;
that it's too late for miracles.
—But suddenly, lifting your eyes
to heaven's light, you realize:
your life is a sheer gift.

#josephbrodsky
30 January 2023
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🟣 African Development Bank have published detailed and thoughtful “Africa’s Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook” report.

🔺Ethiopia will grow 5.2% in 2023-24. A number of factors depress economic growth: expensive agricultural imports, expensive oil, damage from war, worrying security situation in several regions. But despite a combination of several shocks, growth in all five African regions was positive in 2022, and the outlook for 2023-2024 is projected to be stable.

🟠 The report recommends robust mitigation measures. These include a combination of monetary, fiscal and structural policies, including:

▪️Timely and aggressive monetary tightening in countries with high inflation and cautious monetary tightening in countries with low inflationary pressures. Coordination with fiscal policy will further strengthen leverage to ease inflationary pressures.

▪️Increased resilience by increasing intra-African trade, especially in manufactured goods, to protect the economy from volatile commodity prices.

▪️Accelerate structural reforms to build tax administration capacity and invest in digitalization and e-governance to increase transparency, reduce illicit financial flows and increase domestic resource mobilization.

▪️Improved institutional governance and adoption of policies that can leverage private sector financing, especially greenfield projects that are climate and pandemic resilient, and mobilize Africa's resources for inclusive and sustainable development.

▪️ Taking decisive action to reduce structural fiscal deficits and public debt accumulation in countries at high risk of debt distress or already in debt distress.

🟡 Abundant energy supply is key to development. Ethiopian projected growth is more than $5 billion of new economic activity — tremendous amount of new energy demand.

🔆 Off-grid solar generation can satisfy this demand and we at "10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia" are ready for this challenge.
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Solarise Africa have attracted almost $37 million dollars in November-December of 2022. New round of financing will enable the company to accelerate the development of its project portfolio in Kenya and other countries in Africa.

🏅$3 million from Electrification Finance Initiative, the European Union (EU)-funded facility

🏅$21.4 million in financing were provided by Facility for Energy Inclusion (FEI), a renewable energy financing facility set up by the African Development Bank (AfDB)

🏅Dutch impact investor Oikocredit contributed $7 million

🏅$5 million was being provided by the AfricaGoGreen Fund (AGGF)

💰Previous capital raises: Sep-2021 - $5 million; Sep-2020 - $10 million; Jun-2019 - $2.2 million; Nov-2018 - $1.1 million //data from Crunchbase//.

🔆 Solarise Africa is a pan-African Energy-as-a-Service company founded Patrik Huber and Jan-Albert Valk. It is active in South Africa, Uganda and Rwanda. Company finances and builds solar photovoltaic power plants that are then leased to commercial and industrial (C&I) customers to secure their electricity supply while improving their carbon footprint.
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1 February 2023
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🇪🇹Ethiopian hot sun calls for agri-voltaic.

Agri-voltaic approach demands that solar panels are placed above crops so crops grow in shadow.
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🟣 Did you know that Amazon.com employs almost 1.5 million people?

🟠 Revenue of Amazon is $470 billion. It is more than GDP of the largest economy in Africa, 🇳🇬 Nigeria ($455 billion).

🔵 Amazon’s warehouses in USA use 30 million m2.

🔆 In 2022 year Amazon have increased it’s generation of renewable energy by 8 Gigawatt.

🔆 Today Amazon’s installed generation capacity from solar and wind is more than 20 Gigawatt of electricity.

🌍 In Africa Amazon would be 2nd largest energy producer, after South Africa (~60 Gigawatt) and larger than Nigeria (~13 Gigawatt).
2 February 2023
07:37
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🔺Year 2030 is supposed to be a year when every person on a planet has electricity. In Africa alone, 580 million people (~40% of population) don’t have electricity. In Ethiopia, approximately 50% of people don’t have electricity.

🔺The topic of “universal energy access” is one of the most popular at international conferences and other events. It seems that this issue keeps more people employed in Brussels and Washington than a population of small African country.

💐Flowery speeches and beautiful presentations on a topic of “universal energy access” hide a simple truth: it is impossible to weight how much electricity for a household is a right amount of electricity.

🌍Ethiopians are using less than 200kWh per year. Europeans are using 7000kWh per year. Americans - 14000kWh. Saudis - 24000kWh.

🔺How many kWh should a household receive in order to be considered to have “energy access”? This is the most important question.

🇮🇳Indian government had once defined “energy access” as 30kWh per household per year (this is good for couple lamps and phone charger), and have reported that most of the country is receiving electricity.

⚡️International Energy Agency considers “energy access” as 50kWh per household per year - extremely little amount - and we see so many international and local government initiatives working to provide that minuscule amount to everyone: solar lamps, lilliputian mini-grids with capacity of 100kWp for villages of 2000 people, etc.

I would think that such projects make more happy people in Brussels (capital of EU) than in the whole Ethiopia.

✳️ What would you prefer:❎ Solar lamp at home and not enough electricity in local health center to power refrigerator and boiler?

❎ Solar lamp at home and not enough electricity to power street lamps in village?

❎ Solar lamp at home but no electricity to power cooler at local shop?

🔺Goal of “Universal energy access” does not make any sense as it should not be a single objective.

🔺It is not enough to have electricity at home. We need electricity at health centers, schools, communication centers, local police stations. It is also crucial to have street lights, to maintain cold logistical chain in retail and in agriculture, etc. etc. etc.

🔺“Universal energy access” should be “Abundant energy access”. Abundant energy gives an opportunity for productive use, and this is the only way to development.
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3 February 2023
07:37
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Recent (Nov-22) ambitious document “Roadmap to Mobilize USD 1 Trillion by 2030” by @
Bloomberg Philantropies, World Resource Institute and International Solar Alliance has a wealth of interesting numbers and observations.

🔺One simple chart have caught my attention.

🔺In last 10 years the installed solar capacity in the world have increased 20 times (sic!) - from 40 GW in 2020 to 843 GW in 2021.

🔺At the same time the annual solar investment increased only 2 times - from $91 billion to $205 billion per year.

🔺Why this is important? Solar is becoming cheaper every day (~80% decrease in cost during the same period), so investment to deploy solar generation capacity is less and less every year.
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🔺It is great to be different, it is great to be professional, it is great to stand out.

🔺This is so easy in Addis.

🔺Let me teach you. Buy a watch. Or locate clock app on your phone. Even better - install Clock widget on the home screen of your phone.

😎Now you can see what time is it now. Use this knowledge to your advantage. Come to meetings on time, don’t be late, don’t skip meetings.

🧐Plan your route, think about traffic, use your brain or your experience or Google Maps - hope you have one of these.

😇And eternal happiness will embrace you. One way, or another.

@fasil

#ethiopia @10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia
5 February 2023
08:09
TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia
Great poet and Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) and lived there until leaving Soviet Union under pressure from government. He was occasionally visiting Moscow - sometimes to see other poets sometimes hiding from KGB. One of such visits lead to beautiful poem.

== Moscow Carol (1962) ==

In such an inexplicable blue,
Upon the stonework to embark,
The little ship of glowing hue
Appears in Alexander Park.

The little lamp, a yellow rose,
Arising -- ready to retreat -
Above the people it adores;
Near strangers' feet.

In such an inexplicable blue
The drunkards' hive, the loonies' team.
A tourist takes a snapshot to
Have left the town and keep no dream.

On the Ordynka street you find
A taxicab with fevered gnomes,
And dead ancestors stand behind
And lean on domes.

A poet strolls across the town
In such an inexplicable blue.
A doorman watches him looking down
And down the street and catches the flu.

An old and handsome cavalier
Moves down a lane not worth a view,
And wedding-party guests appear
In such an inexplicable blue.

Behind the river, in the haar,
As a collection of the blues -
The yellow walls reflecting far
The hopeless accent of the Jews.

You move to Sunday, to despair
(From love), to the New Year, and there
Appears a girl you cannot woo -
Never explaining why she's blue.

Then in the night the town is lost;
A train is clad in silver plush.
The pallid puff, the draught of frost
Will sheathe your face until you blush.

The honeycomb of windows fits
The smell of halva and of zest,
While Christmas Eve is carrying its
Mince pies abreast.

Watch your New Year come in a blue
Seawave across the town terrain
In such an inexplicable blue,
As if your life can start again,
As if there can be bread and light -
A lucky day -- and something's left,
As if your life can sway aright,
Once swayed aleft.

#josephbrodsky
6 February 2023
07:38
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🟣 On 26-27 of January heads of African states, Chairperson of the African Union, President of the African Development Bank Group, have gathered together in Dakar, Senegal for the Food Africa summit.

🔵 Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group: “This is the time to invest in Africa’s future. The continent has more than 60% of the world’s remaining arable land, and millions of Africans are productive in the agriculture sector. With the removal of barriers to agricultural development aided by new investments, it is estimated that Africa’s agricultural output could increase from $280 billion per year to $1 trillion by 2030.”

🟠 At the event African Development Bank have announced planned investment of $10 billion and a further $20 billion by several partners in support of Africa’s agricultural transformation. The International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Islamic Development Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, and several bilateral partners are among international supporters of the summit.

🔵 H.E. Andry Rajoelina, President of the Republic of Madagascar: “On the African continent today, we are facing a war. The war against famine and malnutrition. It is not only weapons, bombs or tanks that kill. Famine and malnutrition kill more people than armed conflict.”

🟡 Needless to say, electrical energy is an essential component of modern agriculture. You cannot grow food without irrigation hence without electricity. You cannot process food without electricity. You cannot have cold storage without electricity.

🔵 H.E. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal: “The agriculture sector is considered a lame-duck in Africa. We need a shift as Heads of State to prioritize the agriculture sector and farmers.” “We need to inject more resources to upgrade agriculture and change perceptions…We need to find means to give land to women and youth”.

🔺“We need to consume what we produce and produce what we consume. Produce Africa, consume Africa”.

@10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia can help large-scale farmers to build successful, energy abundant farms with solar energy as a primary source of electricity.
7 February 2023
07:37
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🟣 Can Ethiopia learn from Microsoft?

🔄 First of all, we are not that different.

🟢 Ethiopian gross domestic product (adjusted by purchasing power parity, PPP) is $290 billion, Microsoft’s revenue is $198 billion.

🟠 Ethiopia certainly wins on number of people: 120 million inhabitants vs 220 thousand employees of Microsoft.

🔵 Ethiopia’s debt to GDP ratio is 40%, Microsoft’ 90% (and we shouldn’t follow them).

🔆 Recently, Microsoft have announced that it will need at least 2.5 gigawatts of solar panels for its electricity needs. Microsoft’s objective is to receive 100% of its electricity consumption with renewable energy by 2025.

🟡 If Ethiopia will install 2.5 gigawatt of solar panels, it will replace 100% of dirty and terrible diesel generators, and will become 100% “green” too.
8 February 2023
07:37
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☠️ Headline is very eye-catching: “CHINA WILL BAN EXPORT OF SOLAR PANELS”.

But headlines are not a story. The story is completely different. Chinese government is considering to stop exporting of technology to produce solar wafers.

🔆 Production of solar wafers (one of core ingredients of solar photovoltaic panels) is very expensive, extremely energy intensive and quite dirty process, that is presently done mostly in China and that requires raw materials that are being mined mostly in China.

🇨🇳Chinese decision to ban export of this technology HAS NOTHING TO DO with export of solar panels and components for assembling of solar panels. Relax :-)

#solarpower #ethiopia @10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia
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9 February 2023
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If ⚡️electricity was 🥯 bread…

🇪🇹 Ethiopia has just 14 bakeries for 120 million people. 1/3 of delivery 🚛 trucks are broken, and many people never see any 🥖 bread.

🇪🇹 Ethiopian person on average eats only 120 grams of 🥨 bread every year while an average 🇸🇦Saudi Arabian person eats 24000 grams of bread per year.

It is hard to believe but 🌾 flour for making 🍞bread is completely FREE and ENDLESS. And everyone can build 👨🏿‍🍳 own bakery.
10 February 2023
07:30
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✳️ How much electricity 🇪🇹 Ethiopia needs to develop? Part I.

In July of 2020 Ethiopian government (Planning and Development Position) have presented “10 Years Development Plan 2021-2030”. One can find it online both in Amharic and in English.

🔺This plan aspires to make Ethiopia an “African Beacon of Prosperity”. First of all, by improving income levels and wealth accumulations “so that every citizen would be able to satisfy their basic needs and aspirations” — beautiful and noble objective.

🔺Ten year plan sets ambitious economic goals that cannot be reached without ambitious growth in electricity production.

Let’s focus on 👨🏾‍🌾 agriculture development objectives:

1️⃣ increase in crop production by 1.7 times (including 4.3 times increase in crop production through irrigation)

2️⃣ increase in milk production by 2.7 times

3️⃣ increase in meat production by 5.8 times

4️⃣ increase in egg and chicken meat production by 2 times

5️⃣ increase in fish production by 4.2 times

6️⃣ increase in honey production by 2.5 times

🔺@10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia estimates the amount of new electricity generation that is required to support those objectives as 100-150 MW.

The most cost-effective solution is 🔆 off-grid solar+battery - cheapest energy generation that is built right at the location of energy consumption.

#solarpower #ethiopia #10yearplan
12 February 2023
09:00
TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia
One of the greatest poets of our time Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) was born in Leningrad, USSR. Soviet Union have appreciated his genius in a specific soviet way: in February 1964 he was arrested. In prison he survived a heart attack, then was tortured in “psychiatric ward” and in March of 1964 Brodsky was convicted to 5 years of prison as a “tuneyadets” (person who avoids employment) despite being employed as a writer and translator. Unprecedented international campaign have forced Soviets to free Joseph Brodsky. In June of 1972 his citizenship was revoked and he was pushed out of USSR - literally put on a plane to Vienna, and to global fame.

“I Sit By the Window” (1971)

I said fate plays a game without a score,
and who needs fish if you’ve got caviar?
The triumph of the Gothic style would come to pass
and turn you on—no need for coke, or grass.

I sit by the window. Outside, an aspen.
When I loved, I loved deeply. It wasn’t often.
I said the forest’s only part of a tree.
Who needs the whole girl if you’ve got her knee?

Sick of the dust raised by the modern era,
the Russian eye would rest on an Estonian spire.
I sit by the window. The dishes are done.
I was happy here. But I won’t be again.

I wrote: The bulb looks at the floor in fear,
and love, as an act, lacks a verb;
the zero Euclid thought the vanishing point became
wasn’t math—it was the nothingness of Time.

I sit by the window. And while I sit my youth comes back.
Sometimes I’d smile. Or spit.
I said that the leaf may destroy the bud;
what’s fertile falls in fallow soil—a dud;

that on the flat field, the unshadowed plain
nature spills the seeds of trees in vain.
I sit by the window. Hands lock my knees.

My heavy shadow’s my squat company.
My song was out of tune, my voice was cracked,
but at least no chorus can ever sing it back.
That talk like this reaps no reward bewilders
no one—no one’s legs rest on my shoulders.

I sit by the window in the dark.
Like an express, the waves behind the wave like curtain crash.
A loyal subject of these second-rate years,
I proudly admit that my finest ideas
are second-rate, and may the future take them
as trophies of my struggle against suffocation.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out
which is worse: the dark inside, or the darkness out.
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13 February 2023
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#ethiopia #solarpower #14000followers
14 February 2023
07:37
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🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa - President of South Africa - have declared “state of disaster” over situation with electricity.

🔲 South Africans have 16+ hours of electricity every day.

👴🏾 My family in Summit condominium area in Addis sometimes has electricity for 6-7 hours a day.

☝🏾We know that 85% of 🇿🇦 South Africans have access to electricity while 🇪🇹 50% of Ethiopians do not.

🫣 Shall our government declare “state of disaster”?

#ethiopia #solarpower #yeswecan 10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia
15 February 2023
07:37
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🔺 The most important social media in Ethiopia, according to government.

🔺 Telegram, Facebook, Tik-Tok, YouTube.

#ethiopia #goodtoknow
16 February 2023
07:37
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🆕 Innovation isn’t necessarily a new invention, new product, or new service.

📈 Innovation can present itself in a form of new business model - a business model that introduces existing technology into existing value chain thus producing revolutionary outcome.

🔆 At @10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia we are developing and implementing “Double Green” business model - providing “green” (environment-friendly) energy that brings “green” (financial) advantage.

🎉 Last week this work was awarded with honorary diploma of Global Energy Association - “For contribution to the development of energy in the Africa region”.

#ethiopia #solarpower #wearethechampions
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17 February 2023
07:30
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✳️ How much electricity 🇪🇹 Ethiopia needs to develop? Part II.

In July of 2020 Ethiopian government (Planning and Development Position) have presented “10 Years Development Plan 2021-2030”. One can find it online both in Amharic and in English.

🔺This plan aspires to make Ethiopia an “African Beacon of Prosperity”. First of all, by improving income levels and wealth accumulations “so that every citizen would be able to satisfy their basic needs and aspirations” — beautiful and noble objective.

🔺Ten year plan sets ambitious economic goals that cannot be reached without ambitious growth in electricity production.

Let’s focus on 👨🏾‍🏭 manufacturing and development objectives:

1️⃣ increase average capacity utilization of the manufacturing industry from 50% to 85%

2️⃣ raise the number of small and medium-scale manufacturing enterprises from 2,000 to 11,000

3️⃣ create a total of 5 million new job opportunities in the manufacturing industry

🔺@10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia estimates the amount of new electricity generation that is required to support those objectives as 600 MW.

The most cost-effective solution is 🔆 off-grid solar+battery - cheapest energy generation that is built right at the location of energy consumption.

#solarpower #ethiopia #10yearplan
19 February 2023
08:30
TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia
In year 1962 future Nobel Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate Joseph Brodsky was just 22 years old.

He lived in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) and visited Moscow 3-4 times a year: to hide from oppression by KGB and to see the most important literary figure in his life: poet Anna Akhmatova.

One of such visits lead to the most ❤️beautiful poem .

== Moscow Carol (1962) ==

In such an inexplicable blue,
Upon the stonework to embark,
The little ship of glowing hue
Appears in Alexander Park.

The little lamp, a yellow rose,
Arising -- ready to retreat -
Above the people it adores;
Near strangers' feet.

In such an inexplicable blue
The drunkards' hive, the loonies' team.
A tourist takes a snapshot to
Have left the town and keep no dream.

On the Ordynka street you find
A taxicab with fevered gnomes,
And dead ancestors stand behind
And lean on domes.

A poet strolls across the town
In such an inexplicable blue.
A doorman watches him looking down
And down the street and catches the flu.

An old and handsome cavalier
Moves down a lane not worth a view,
And wedding-party guests appear
In such an inexplicable blue.

Behind the river, in the haar,
As a collection of the blues -
The yellow walls reflecting far
The hopeless accent of the Jews.

You move to Sunday, to despair
(From love), to the New Year, and there
Appears a girl you cannot woo -
Never explaining why she's blue.

Then in the night the town is lost;
A train is clad in silver plush.
The pallid puff, the draught of frost
Will sheathe your face until you blush.

The honeycomb of windows fits
The smell of halva and of zest,
While Christmas Eve is carrying its
Mince pies abreast.

Watch your New Year come in a blue
Seawave across the town terrain
In such an inexplicable blue,
As if your life can start again,
As if there can be bread and light -
A lucky day -- and something's left,
As if your life can sway aright,
Once swayed aleft.

(Joseph Brodsky in Leningrad in 1962 — photographs by Boris Shwartzman)

#josephbrodsky
20 February 2023
07:35
TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia

Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed’s Statement at the 36th Assembly of African Union (quote #1/3)

☝🏾 Our continent is not only well able to feed itself, but can become a bread basket of the world.

🔺 In Ethiopia, we have been working diligently to enhance agricultural productivity in the past four years. We have commenced an initiative that encourages small-holder farmers to farm in clusters that enable them to benefit from irrigation and mechanization.

🔺 Ethiopia is undertaking a massive campaign to encourage both large- and small-scale poultry, dairy, livestock farming, as well as urban agriculture.

🟡 I call upon our African Union and development partners to support in unleashing this potential.

#AbiyAhmedAli #ethiopia #weneedelectrity
21 February 2023
07:35
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed’s Statement at the 36th Assembly of African Union (quote #2/3)

🤨 Global meetings on climate change are rich with the rhetoric of climate justice, the just transition, common but differentiated responsibilities of parties.

🔺These talks, however, are hardly ever backed up with action. And Africa cannot wait.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia is definitely not waiting for solutions to come from outside. Instead, we are doing all we can to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

☝🏾 For my country, investment in environmental protection is not a charity; it is driven by enlightened self-interest. For us in Ethiopia, environmental protection is about everything we are as a society. It is about our ability to feed ourselves. It is about our ability to conserve water and other precious resources. It is about our ability to preserve peace between adjoining communities. It is about our survival as a nation.

#AbiyAhmedAli #ethiopia #weneedgreenenergy
22 February 2023
07:35
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed’s Statement at the 36th Assembly of African Union (quote #3/3)

🌍 African countries are engaged in environmental conservation, reforestation and massive investment in the generation of clean energy from hydro sources. In short, Africa is leading the world in areas that matter for all humanity and it is time for Africa's leadership role to be recognized and institutionalized.

☝🏾 I would like to use this opportunity to lend my voice yet again for Africa to be represented on the UN Security Council with at least one permanent seat and double non-permanent seats. Moreover, Africa also needs to have proportionate representation at the G7, the G20 and similar global forums.

#AbiyAhmedAli #ethiopia #wewillbeheard
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🔆 Carbon Credits — should you care?

African Business Forum at Sheraton Addis was a beautiful congregation of beautiful people in beautiful suits speaking beautiful things. @gepp @seforall @uneca

🟡 The subject of the Forum is little exotic: carbon credits, voluntary carbon markets and compliance/regulatory carbon markets.

🔺 I invite you to decide for yourself if you should be interested in carbon credits.

☝🏾 If you generate 300kW-h for 8 hours, you will use approximately 800 liters of diesel oil per day.

✌🏾 800 liters of diesel oil when burned create 2,112 kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO2)

🖖🏾 In 300 working days, it will be 633.6 tons of CO2. In 5 years - 3,168 tons.

👋🏾 Carbon credit goes for $50-70 per ton. So 5 years of saving the planet will bring you $150,000-200,000, covering roughly 10% of your costs.

✊🏾 The situation will look different if carbon credits can be received for the whole lifespan of solar installation (15 years), and the price will be of at least $100 per ton. This way you will receive $950,000.

✳️ We will be watching African carbon market and inform you about it’s developments.

#ethiopia #solarpower @10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia
23 February 2023
09:50
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Electric 3-wheelers will change lives of Ethiopian rural towns and villages. And we can make this happen. Please read my article on LinkedIn newsletter below.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/electric-3-wheeler-change-lives-ethiopian-towns-mikael-alemu
24 February 2023
07:30
TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia
✳️ How much electricity 🇪🇹 Ethiopia needs to develop? Part III.

In July of 2020 Ethiopian government (Planning and Development Position) have presented “10 Years Development Plan 2021-2030”. One can find it online both in Amharic and in English.

🔺This plan aspires to make Ethiopia an “African Beacon of Prosperity”. First of all, by improving income levels and wealth accumulations “so that every citizen would be able to satisfy their basic needs and aspirations” — beautiful and noble objective.

🔺Ten year plan sets ambitious economic goals that cannot be reached without ambitious growth in electricity production.

Let’s focus on 👷🏿mining development objectives:
1️⃣ increase gold production by 3.2 tons to 137 tons (42 times)

2️⃣ increase number of mining industries that add value to precious and semi-precious minerals from 30 to 130 (4.3 times)

3️⃣ increase number of mining industries that produce construction inputs from 1,500 to 6,500 (4.3 times)

4️⃣ increase number of mining industries that produce minerals that serve as inputs for the production of chemicals and petrochemicals from 100 to 1,100 (11 times)

🔺@10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia estimates the amount of new electricity generation that is required to support those objectives as 200 MW.

The most cost-effective solution is 🔆 off-grid solar+battery - cheapest energy generation that is built right at the location of energy consumption.

#solarpower #ethiopia #10yearplan
26 February 2023
08:30
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Brodsky’s Nobel lecture - post 1/4

✳️ On June 4, 1972, Joseph Brodsky was put onto plane to Vienna by plaincloth KGB officers. A non-conformist alien in a totalitarian USSR he immediately found his place and role in free world. He has been Poet-in-Residence and Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Queens College, Smith College, Columbia University, and Cambridge University in England. In 1978, Brodsky was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at Yale University, and on May 23, 1979, he was inducted as a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1981, Brodsky was a recipient of MacArthur Foundation’s award for his works of “genius”. In 1986 a collection of Brodsky’s essays on the arts and politics won the National Book Critic’s Award for Criticism.

In 1987 Joseph Brodsky was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature - “for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity”. He delivered his Nobel lecture in Russian, with an authorized English translation.

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“For someone rather private, for someone who all his life has preferred his private condition to any role of social significance, and who went in this preference rather far – far from his motherland to say the least, for it is better to be a total failure in democracy than a martyr or the crème de la crème in tyranny – for such a person to find himself all of a sudden on this rostrum is a somewhat uncomfortable and trying experience.

This sensation is aggravated not so much by the thought of those who stood here before me as by the memory of those who have been bypassed by this honor, who were not given this chance to address ‘urbi et orbi’, as they say, from this rostrum and whose cumulative silence is sort of searching, to no avail, for release through this speaker.

The only thing that can reconcile one to this sort of situation is the simple realization that – for stylistic reasons, in the first place – one writer cannot speak for another writer, one poet for another poet especially; that had Osip Mandelstam, or Marina Tsvetaeva, or Robert Frost, or Anna Akhmatova, or Wystan Auden stood here, they couldn’t have helped but speak precisely for themselves, and that they, too, might have felt somewhat uncomfortable.

These shades disturb me constantly; they are disturbing me today as well. In any case, they do not spur one to eloquence. In my better moments, I deem myself their sum total, though invariably inferior to any one of them individually. For it is not possible to better them on the page; nor is it possible to better them in actual life. And it is precisely their lives, no matter how tragic or bitter they were, that often move me – more often perhaps than the case should be – to regret the passage of time. If the next life exists – and I can no more deny them the possibility of eternal life than I can forget their existence in this one – if the next world does exist, they will, I hope, forgive me and the quality of what I am about to utter: after all, it is not one’s conduct on the podium which dignity in our profession is measured by.”

#josephbrodsky #nobel
1 March 2023
07:37
TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia

☝🏾 Next Sunday (March 5 at 18:00) in Tel-Aviv I will be talking to businesspeople and investors about opportunities in Africa in general and Ethiopia in particular.

☝🏾 My presentation and the general conversation will be in Russian but most of participants are English-speaking, and I welcome everyone who is interested to present Ethiopian businesses and products to the audience.

☝🏾 Please comment or reply to this message or email me at mikael@10G.energy so I can register you for the event, send address info and other details.
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✳️ The most important conference on AgriVoltaic is held in a distant corner of Israel where agricultural development won’t be possible without tremendous amount of energy directed to change climate conditions on ground.

🤯Several thousands of conference attendees are listening to speakers exploring issues between energy and agriculture as well as other fields: biotechnology and data science.

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TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia

✳️ AgriVoltaic conference showcases a number of innovative applications of solar energy generation alongside horticultural and crop production.

🔆 Solutions developed and implemented in Europe and Israel will be even more efficient in Ethiopia because we have more solar irradiation and sun days.

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2 March 2023
13:35
TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia

🏆 87.5 millions euro for solar energy projects for commercial and industrial companies

French financier Rgreen Invest and Echosys Advisory-backed investment advisor Echosys Invest have closed a new fund to finance solar power production across Africa.

🌍Afrigreen Debt Impact Fund, totalling €87.5 million (US$92.53 million), will be used to finance on- and off-grid solar power plants for small and medium-sized commercial and industrial consumers in the continent, with a focus on West and Central Africa.

Fund will support 20-30 projects in Ghana and Nigeria using local currencies — support for this is provided by International Development Association (IDA)’s “Private Sector Window Local Currency Facility”. Average project will be worth €5 million covering 30-50% of necessary financing.

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3 March 2023
07:51
TenGigawatt 🔸 Solar Energy in Ethiopia

😎 My conversation with Samson Berhane was recently featured by @Sun-Connect-News.

There are several points that I am desperately trying to get to readers:

(1) Ethiopia needs at least TEN times more electricity that it generates today
(2) Binding and maintaining national electric grid for Ethiopia is prohibitively expensive
(3) Solar off-grid generation is always a least-cost and by far the fastest solution

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