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The world’s largest event focused on climate updates highlights one of the Arab world’s most pressing debates: what to do with Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Egypt is this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27 (Conference of the Parties), in Sharm el-Sheikh from 6 to 18 November. During trilateral negotiations in recent years over the structure and operation of the dam, the water factor to fill the dam has provoked questionable discussions between Ethiopia, which is structuring the hydroelectric facility, and downstream countries Egypt and Sudan.
Egypt and Sudan, which hold water from the Nile, continue to press Ethiopia to sign a legally binding agreement on the filling and operation of the dam which, when completed, is expected to have a hydroelectric capacity of approximately 5. 2 GW. Officials have the capacity of the GERD reservoir is 74 cubic kilometers (km). The existing allocation program calls for full advertising operation to begin in 2025. Construction of the dam began in 2011.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, on November 2, in a speech at the 31st Arab Summit in Algeria, said that the challenge of water security through the dam has repercussions for several Arab countries and will have serious consequences for the water source if their considerations continue. being ignored
GERD is located on the Blue Nile, a major tributary of the Nile, in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of northwestern Ethiopia. The project is being built through Webuild Group, a subsidiary of Italian structural giant Salini Costruttori S. p. A. , for state-owned Ethiopian Electric Power.
Webuild said the allocation will come with more than a dozen 375MW Francis turbines. The first of these turbines began supplying electrical power in February this year, and a turbine was now operational in August.
Al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Ethiopia deserves to join the negotiations of the UN Security Council statements for the dam structure, which called for making sure that the allocation of GERD takes into account the wishes of other Ethiopians and the policy of Egypt and Egypt. Other Sudanese. He said that “climate renewal is a truth imposed on the world,” likely a reference to drought situations affecting hydropower allocations and water resources around the world.
Egypt and European Union members supported last year’s GERD Security Council that Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan needed a legally binding agreement for the entire and operational of the dam, and identified the importance of the Nile to the region. EU countries in particular have said Egypt’s interests will continue to be protected.
“Egypt will keep in mind the team spirit of the Arab entity, its preservation and protection, and will be there to help it, keeping its doors open to all young Arabs to protect their future and future generations,” Al-Sisi said. he said on Wednesday, calling on Arab leaders to attend the COP27 conference together.
Ethiopia is investing in the GERD project. In October, Habtamu Itefa, minister of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Water and Energy, told The Reporter news service in Addis Ababa: “There are indications and demands that Egypt wishes to expand the concepts of legally binding agreements to force Ethiopia to release water from the dam at any time. Downstream nations report drought. The press service said Habtamu feared that the main timeline for GERD discussions, lately in a two-year stalemate between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt, could shift from water filling to drought and climate change. .
Habtamu told The Reporter: “When we started building the dam, they might just not do anything about it, so they came up with the concept of discussing how it deserves to be filled with the terms of binding agreements. Now that we have begun to fill it, they can no longer order us. The press service reported that Habtamu believes that after the third dam filling was completed in July this year, Egypt made the decision to replace the dam’s narrative on how GERD may have an effect on the water source due to drought and climate replacement.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, in a July letter to the UN Security Council, said Egypt completely rejected Ethiopia’s filling tank.
The dispute over the structure of GERD has been going on for years. Egypt said the Nile supplies 90 percent of the country’s new water and is for irrigation and power generation, and insisted on foreign steps to reach a binding agreement on filling. the dam. The Sudan expressed many of the same concerns.
Ethiopia advanced the task and said it will double the country’s electricity production and supply electricity to more than 40% of Ethiopia’s population without electricity. He also said the dam, as a component of a $40 billion plan to increase the country’s electric power production, will bring benefits to the entire region.
Biden’s management in July reiterated its support for water security in Egypt and also called for an agreement on the use of Nile water that addresses each country’s concerns.
—Darrell Proctor is deputy editor of POWER (@POWERmagazine).
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