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Dossier #40398

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

🇪🇹Ethiopia · Blue Nile River · Nile Basin

Built 2020 · Dam · data quality: Good

Hydroelectricity

Specifications

Height
145 m
Crest length
1,780 m
Reservoir capacity
74 km³
Reservoir area
1,874 km²
Average depth
39.5 m
Installed power
750 MW
Catchment
174,830 km²
Avg discharge
2,101,227 L/s
Elevation
506 masl
Degree of regulation
111.7 %

Notes

Filling was still ongoing in 2023

Built 2020

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Provenance

Record 40398 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GROD, year via Other. Coordinates are river-snapped: 11.2143, 35.0924.