Djibouti:

Djibouti Joins the Rift Valley Geothermal Energy Club (SciDev.Net)

(Courtesy CIA.gov)

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is highlighting geothermal power as a way of not only helping to meet the energy demands of countries in the Horn of Africa and the Rift Valley, but also as part of a 'green growth' agenda in its 2013-2022 strategy for African transformation.

Projects are underway or planned in the Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya and now Djibouti, where the geothermal energy potential of the country's Lake Assal region, which lies in the Rift Valley, is being explored. The bank estimates the area has the potential to produce up to 200 megawatts of geothermal power, and is putting in US$7.5 million to fund the project.

In total, the Rift Valley could produce up to 14,000 MWe of geothermal power, a type of clean, renewable energy whose exploitation the bank is financing.

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