Addis Ababa, January 6 (WIC) - The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) has proposed the largest hydroelectric dam which is expected to serve Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt.

According to BiofuelsWatch.com, the Ethiopian government has plans to establish the dam on the Blue Nile River off Bure town on the road that leads to Nekemt at Bako-Ambo area, located in the Oromia State.

World Bank will be funding the proposed dam project.

Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office based in Addis Ababa had conducted a preliminary visibility study when the dam was proposed by NBI.

The building of dam will be undertaken by the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) while the tenders for design work and feasibility studies of the dam will be the responsibility taken by the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR).

  The dam project will produce a massive 2,100 MW of power once it is completed, according to Asfaw Dingamo, minister of Water Resources.    

Norwegian government has funded this project financially and granted them 414.2 million Br which would be put towards feasibility and design and technical consultancy.

  This initiative was started to create a fair use of available resources and properties of Nile Basin amongst the Basin countries.   

Recently the government of Ethiopia had done a study and as per their findings they recognized four sites which were good for hydroelectric dams on the Nile River course in Benishagul Gumuz, Oromia, and Amhara states.