The Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) is planning to commence commercial operations in August 2021 on its five MW geothermal power plant, the Aluto Langano Geothermal Wellhead Power System.
The Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (ESS), along with Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Turkish engineering company Egesim Energy Electro-Mechanic Construction Contracting, has received an order of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) for Aluto Langano Geothermal Wellhead Power System in central Ethiopia. Toshiba ESS will be in charge of supplying the steam turbine and the generator.
The project will proceed under the Grant Aid Scheme of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Toshiba ESS will deliver its small-scale geothermal power generation system at this power plant.
The small-scale geothermal wellhead power generation system that has been developed by Toshiba ESS generates power from geothermal resources with outputs ranging from one MW to 20 MW.
Ethiopia possesses an equivalent of roughly 10,000 MW of geothermal potential resources and plans are in place to develop new geothermal power plants totalling a capacity of roughly 2,500 MW by 2030.