The Role of Hydropower for Regional Integration. The Case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
The Role of Hydropower for Regional Integration. The Case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Author: Getahun Kumie

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2016-12-07

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 3668358222

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Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: Very Good, Addis Ababa University (Department of Politcal Science and International Relations), course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: The commencement of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on April 2, 2011 dictates significant change on the ground which challenges the hydro political status quo of the Nile basin. The construction of the dam facilitates discussion among states of the region over the impacts of the dam and the possibilities of future utilization of the River. Thus, this study attempted to investigate the role of GERD for regional integration. The researcher attempted to examine the role of GERD for regional integration in the Horn of Africa in view of challenges and prospects ahead. In addition, the study tried to analyze the role of GERD for maintaining peace and stability in the region and also its implications for Ethiopia. Methodologically, the research is based on a qualitative research approach. The study has used secondary sources. It also used primary data through in-depth interview with officials and experts from relevant institutions and authorities. The available sources are analyzed by using descriptive and explanatory research approaches. The major findings of the study reveal that GERD will be a catalyst for regional integration in the Horn of Africa through providing energy interconnection and creating economic interdependence among states of the region. The findings in this paper also suggested that GERD will be a catalyst for maintaining peace and stability in the region by enhancing economic interdependence and cooperative utilization of Nile water resources. The findings also indicated that the construction of GERD has social, economic and political implications to Ethiopia. The study highlighted the prospects of GERD for regional integration. Among others, Sudanese support for the dam; the signing of declaration of principles of GERD and the intensification of infrastructural interconnections among states of the region are some of them. Lastly, the study highlighted challenges ahead on GERD for regional integration. Among these mistrust among states of the region; the absence broader regulatory framework for hydropower trading; the nature of political regimes, and financial constraints for constructing the dam and also for establishing transmission grids are the most prominent ones. Generally, the findings of the study leads to the overall conclusion that GERD will foster regional integration through providing energy interconnection and economic interdependence among states of the region.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile

Author: Wossenu Abtew

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-26

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 3319970941

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This book is about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam newly being built on the Blue Nile, a transboundary river. Due to rising population and increasing water demand in the Nile basin, major projects raise interest and concern by millions with potential for water conflict. The dam design, reservoir filling policy, operation of the dam, riparian countries response, dam site importance and social impact and economy of the dam are presented in the book.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin

Author: Zeray Yihdego

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1351661566

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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa’s largest dam, but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region. This book, after setting out basin-level legal and policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters, articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD through multiple disciplinary lenses. It sets out its possibilities as a basis for a new era of cooperation, its regional and global implications, the benefits of cooperation and coordination in dam filling, and the need for participatory and transparent decision making. By applying law, political science and hydrology to sharing water resources in general and to large-scale dam building, filling and operating in particular, it offers concrete qualitative and quantitative options that are essential to promote cooperation and coordination in utilising and preserving Nile waters. The book incorporates the economic dimension and draws on recent developments including: the signing of a legally binding contract by Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to carry out an impact assessment study; the possibility that the GERD might be partially operational very soon, the completion of transmission lines from GERD to Addis Ababa; and the announcement of Sudan to commence construction of transmission lines from GERD to its main cities. The implications of these are assessed and lessons learned for transboundary water cooperation and conflict management.

Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance
Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance

Author: Tom Lavers

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-10-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0192699067

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. After more than a decade of construction, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the hydrology and politics of the Nile Basin. The GERD is the culmination of a dam building boom carried out over three decades and a key pillar of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front's (EPRDF) efforts to bring about an Ethiopian 'Renaissance'. Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance provides a detailed examination of the domestic and international political dynamics that shaped Ethiopia's dam building, drawing on extensive primary research including more than a hundred interviews with politicians, technocrats, consultants, and donors. The authors reflect on the implications of Ethiopia's dam building for broader debates about the role of the state in late development, the dynamics of twenty-first century dam building, and the political economy of renewable energy transitions. A central argument of the book is that Ethiopia's dam building is symbolic of the successes and failures of the EPRDF's 'developmental state'. On the one hand, this dams' boom enhanced electricity generation capacity, while constituting a key element of the state infrastructure investment that turned Ethiopia into one of the world's fastest growing economies. In contrast, a politically driven decision-making process undermined electricity planning, contributed to an unsustainable debt burden, and, ultimately, failed to provide reliable electricity access to key users. Following the EPRDF's collapse, the subsequent Prosperity Party government has taken steps away from the state-led development model of its predecessor, while labouring towards the final completion of the GERD. Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations is a series for scholars and students working on African politics and International Relations and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on contemporary developments in African political science, political economy, and International Relations, such as electoral politics, democratization, decentralization, gender and political representation, the political impact of natural resources, the dynamics and consequences of conflict, comparative political thought, and the nature of the continent's engagement with the East and West. Comparative and mixed methods work is particularly encouraged. Case studies are welcomed but should demonstrate the broader theoretical and empirical implications of the study and its wider relevance to contemporary debates. The focus of the series is on sub-Saharan Africa, although proposals that explain how the region engages with North Africa and other parts of the world are of interest. Series Editors: Nic Cheeseman (University of Birmingham), Peace Medie (University of Bristol), and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Oxford)

Estimating the Economic Wide Effect of Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Ethiopian Economy
Estimating the Economic Wide Effect of Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Ethiopian Economy

Author: Ashiber Tsegaye

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2020-03-23

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 3346135446

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Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: A, Addis Ababa University, language: English, abstract: This paper examines the economy wide effect of Ethiopian renaissance dam on Ethiopian economy. The model is based on an updated Social Accounting Matrix for 2014/15 that takes into account the structural changes in the economy. Given the additional electricity generation capacity of Ethiopia, the model run a policy simulation in which the additional 6000MW that scheduled to come online near the future form renaissance dam. To analysis this policy option this paper outlined a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium approach and hence uses the change in real GDP, sectors production, investment, external sector, household income and consumption expenditures, and household’s welfare relative to the baseline, as an indicators of the economic wide effects of the renaissance dam. In opting for policy shock, the results of exercise showed that with an increment in power supply from renaissance dam the country can optimize the beneficial impacts on its economy. Specifically the simulation results show a spreading out effect in real GDP, sectors production, real investment, household income and household’s consumption expenditure. Results also showed improvement in the welfare for all the household categories. However; the shift in relative income across the household categories favors high income households. Overall, this paper suggests that Ethiopian economy will enjoy the largest improvement with additional power supply resulting from Ethiopian renaissance dam, therefore; concerned bodies should exerted maximum efforts to finalize the projects on time and resolve the age-long problems of the people so that the economy maintains its tremendous progress.

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Versus Aswan High Dam
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Versus Aswan High Dam

Author: Abdelazim M. Negm

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-22

Total Pages: 579

ISBN-13: 3319956000

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This unique volume discusses various aspects of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the Aswan High Dam (AHD) including their positive and negative impacts. It presents up-to-date research findings by Egyptian scientists and researchers covering several interesting hot topics under the following main themes: · Major impacts of GERD compared with the AHD · Environmental impacts of the AHD · Modeling scenarios investigating the impacts of GERD on the AHD and downstream · Environmental and social impacts of GERD on Egypt · Status and assessment of the sediment of the AHD reservoir and modeling the impacts of GERD on Lake Nubia sediment accumulation · Proposed scenarios for maximizing the benefits of the AHD reservoir · International aspects of GERD and the AHD The volume also offers a set of conclusions and recommendations to optimize the cooperation between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia. It appeals to postgraduate students, researchers, scientists, professionals and policy planners.

Nile and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Nile and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Author: Assefa M. Melesse

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-31

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 3030764370

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This book is a contribution by the presenters of the 2020 International Conference on the Nile and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The Nile basin is facing unprecedented level of water right challenges after the construction of GERD has begun. Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have struggled to narrow their differences on filling and operation of the GERD. The need for science and data-based discussion for a lasting solution is crucial. Historical perspectives, water rights, agreements, failed negotiations, and other topics related to the Nile is covered in this book. The book covers Nile water claims past and present, international transboundary basin cooperation and water sharing, Nile water supply and demand management, Blue Nile/Abbay and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, land and water degradation and watershed management, emerging threats of the Lakes Region in the Nile Basin, and hydrologic variation and monitoring. This book is beneficial for students, researchers, sociologists, engineers, policy makers, lawyers, water resources and environmental managers and for the people and governments of the Nile Basin.

An Assessment of Reservoir Filling Policies Under a Changing Climate for Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam
An Assessment of Reservoir Filling Policies Under a Changing Climate for Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam

Author: Andrew M. King

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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Africa's largest hydropower facility is currently under construction on the main stem of the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. Construction of the estimated $5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began in 2011 and is slated to be fully operational in late 2017. The GERD is poised to facilitate regional development with a 63 billion cubic meter reservoir and 6,000 MW of power generating capacity. Of keen interest to the water managers within the Nile River Basin is the transient filling stage of the massive reservoir. To date, however no reservoir filling rate policy has been established. This policy will have clear implications on the GERD's ability to generate hydropower in the near-term and coincidentally impact people and livelihoods in the downstream nations of Sudan and Egypt through reduced streamflow availability. Implications of climate variability and emerging climate change within Ethiopia cast further uncertainty on potential filling policies and system operations. To address this challenge, numerous filling policies are evaluated through a climate-sensitivity approach to estimate impacts on reservoir filling time, hydropower production, and downstream flows. This provides viable and timely points of comparison for regional water managers and politicians negotiating system operations in the midst of ongoing project construction.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd)
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd)

Author: U. S. Military

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-04-12

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781093744422

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Since 2011, Ethiopia has forged ahead with plans to complete the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a massive infrastructure project meant to bring much-needed electricity to the nation and to the region. Egypt opposes the initiative due to the perceived negative impacts associated with altering the flow of the Nile. Ethiopia has--up until now--acquiesced to Egyptian claims on the Nile, showcasing an inclination toward cooperation. With the GERD, however, Ethiopia is challenging Egypt's historic supremacy over affairs along the Nile. Despite frameworks for cooperation, binding agreements have remained elusive and, in their absence, Ethiopia has unilaterally moved forward with the project. With construction over 65% complete, Ethiopia's developmental ambitions have collided with Egypt's access to natural resources, prompting fears of conflict between the sovereign states. Why has Ethiopia continued to press on with this initiative at the risk of interstate conflict? This thesis examines internal and external conditions affecting Ethiopia's drive toward construction and completion of the GERD. It highlights internal political and economic dynamics factoring into Ethiopia's decision-making process and showcases external considerations that have afforded Ethiopia the maneuver space to move forward with regional ambitions. Ultimately, internal and external conditions set the stage for initial construction and continue to incentivize Ethiopia toward completion.This compilation includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.I. Introduction * A. Significance of the Research Question * B. Literature Review * 1. Overview: Resource Wars and Interstate Conflict * 2. Water Wars: The Alarmists' Perspective * 3. Water Wars: The Empiricists' Take * 4. Cooperation and Conflict: The Ethiopia-Egypt Dynamic * C. Potential Explanations and Hypotheses * 1. Internal Conditions * 2. External Conditions * D. Research Design * E. Thesis Overview and Draft Chapter Outline * II. Internal Conditions * A. Relevant Theory and Concepts * B. Internal Political Considerations - Development and Elite Domination * 1. The Derg * 2. The Meles Era * C. Economic Considerations-The GERD as State Transformation * D. Conclusion * III. External Conditions * A. Egypt's Waning Power * 1. Egypt's Position of Power * 2. Nile Treaties and Undermined Supremacy * 3. Egypt's Weakened State: An Opportunity * B. Ethiopia's Increased Regional Significance * 1. Rising Economic and Political Power * 2. Ethiopia-Central to Regional Peacekeeping and Security Operations * 3. Ethiopia-Critical U.S. Partner in East Africa * C. No Fear of Retribution * D. Conclusion * IV. Conclusions * A. Summary of Arguments * 1. Internal Conditions * 2. External Conditions * 3. The Confluence * B. Theoretical Implications * C. Practical Implications and Policy Recommendations * D. Gaps in Research and Areas for Further StudySince 2011, Ethiopia has forged ahead with plans to complete the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a massive undertaking meant to bring much-needed electricity to the nation and to the region. Given the immense opposition from Egypt, which stems from the perceived negative externalities associated with altering the waterflow of the Nile, why has Ethiopia decided to risk interstate conflict by unilaterally moving forward with the initiative? Has Ethiopia's perception of relative power changed, and what exigencies are driving the decision to challenge Egypt's "hydro-hegemony?" Why now? This research adds to literature on water wars and the risk of international conflict due to large-scale developmental projects.