Addis Ababa May 16/2015 The Adama- II wind farm with an installed generating capacity of 153mw energy will be inaugurated on Monday.

The project, an extension of the Adama I wind farm, generating 51mw power, have 102 turbines each with an installed capacity of 1.5mw.

The government has planned and engaged in developing energy from renewable sources, including hydro, wind, solar and geothermal.

The Adama II project will raise the country's power generating capacity from wind to 324mw combined with Adama I and the 120mw, 84-turbine wind farm in Ashegoda, which is Africa's biggest.

The country plans to boost electricity generating capacity from 2,000mw to 10,000mw within the coming few years, much of it coming from the 6,000mw Renaissance Dam under construction on the Nile.

Experts put Ethiopia's hydropower potential at around 45,000mw and geothermal at 5,000mw, while its wind power potential is believed to be Africa's third-largest behind Egypt and Morocco.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency