The €210m ($290m) plant – the largest wind farmto come online in Africa to date – is located18km from Mekelle, the capital of Tigray regional state.

Ashegoda uses 84 machines from French turbine companyVergnet, which developed the plant with the help of finance from BNP Paribasand the French Development Agency.

The Ethiopian government covered about 9% of the costof the project and state utility EEPCO will operate the plant.

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