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News Electricity rationing restricting cement production in Ethiopia

Electricity rationing restricting cement production in Ethiopia

Written by Global Cement staff 19 June 2019
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Ethiopia: Electricity rationing has been restricting the production of cement companies since it started in April 2019. Under a program implemented by Ethiopian Electric and the Ministry of Water and Energy, cement producers are only allowed to operate for 15 days per month, according to the Reporter newspaper. They say this has increased their production costs because cement production is a continuous process that requires start up and stoppage time. The Ministry of Trade has asked that cement producers do raise the price of cement despite the increase in production cost. Input and transport costs have also risen.

“There is a huge waste of resources when we start up and stop running our plant. Continuous production has cost benefits. We spend 24 hours warming up the plant. There is wastage of coal and electric power,” said Mesfine Abi, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Habesha Cement. He added that the company is facing growing maintenance costs as its machines fail to cope with repeated power cuts.

The national electricity power restrictions have been caused by water shortages at hydroelectric dams. Rainwater has started flowing back in the dam reservoirs but power rationing is not expected to be rescinded until early July 2019.

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  • Ethiopia
  • Electricity
  • GCW410
  • Ethiopian Electric
  • Ministry of Water and Energy
  • Ministry of Trade
  • Plant
  • Dangote Cement Ethiopia
  • Habesha
  • hydroelectric
  • Government

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