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Ethiopia’s energy policy shows the effort taken to both increase the amount of energy that the country can produce, while also decreasing the harmful effects of those energy generation methods [1]. In Ethiopia’s growth and transformation plan II, they stated they planned to increase their energy generation capacity to 8000 MW by 2025 compared to the around 4450 MW currently installed as of 2019 [1, 2]. Currently, in Ethiopia, hydroelectric dams are the primary electrical generation method and bioenergy is the largest primary energy source [2]. Most of the new development will be created by hydroelectric energy which is one of Ethiopia’s largest domestic resource in terms of energy generation [3]. While not fully developed, there is an untapped potential of fossil fuels which can also act as a future domestic resource [4, 5].

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Petrovic, S., Gaumer, S. (2023). Ethiopia. In: Petrovic, S. (eds) World Energy Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31625-8_8

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