Ethiopia has started generating power from the first 375 MW turbine of the 5,150 MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), and the entire project, consisting of 13 turbines, has reached 80% of completion with completion now expected in two to three years (2024-2025). Ethiopia started to build the giant hydropower project on the Nile River in May 2011 and began filling the dam's reservoir in 2020, arousing a fierce opposition from neighbouring Egypt and Sudan, which considered that it violates a colonial-era agreement giving them rights to 90% of the Nile's water (Ethiopia claims to be the source of about 85% of the total water in the Nile). The US$4.5bn project was initially designed as a 5,250 MW project but later upgraded to 6,450 MW, before being downsized to 5,150 MW.
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