Opportunity to Scale Up Solar

Technology in Ethiopia

Smallholder Irrigation Development

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Introduction
In Ethiopia over 11Mha of smallholder irrigation
potential (about 1.4Mha irrigated). More than 60% of
our farmers are smallholders that have less 1ha.

Availability of over 24.64BM3 shallow ground water that

can irrigate around 2.71Mha (ATA, 2019); benefit >
6.4MHH and also the potential is beyond inclusively with
deep GW.
 GW= 4.3 Mha = 48%

Current coverage < 1.2Mha

MoA Strategy 2019

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234,772 km2, 100 % of the target, has been mapped,
with command area in >2.7 mil ha
Issues Result Obtained Overall SGWM areas
▪ 24.64 bm3 water is available at a
Quantity of depth of less than 30 m ▪ Well
shallow Spacing are defined based on
ground water annual recharge rate

▪ 2,708,373ha of land can be irrigated

▪ 6,393,120 HHs beneficiary
households
▪ 169 navigational tools procured &
SGWM output uploaded
▪ 114 SGW Atlases are produced,
HH and published and distributed to 114
command area woredas
definition
▪ Training on the use and operation of
navigation tool on shallow
groundwater development was
provided to 98 regional experts of
the four main regions
▪ Additional training and experience
sharing at Prague conducted for ATA
Irrigation Pumps
• In Ethiopia over 200,000ha were irrigated by diesel
pump which demands an operation cost of 50M USD
every year/GIZ 2019/. Currently, more than 400,000
of Diesel water pumps are distributed with average
operation cost of 350 USD/ha/Season. (Alemayehu,
2018)

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 On farm action research on solar powered………

Feasibility analysis of investment in solar pump for smallholder

irrigation
250000

200000

150000
NPVs

100000

50000

0
Drip-pepper Furrow-pepper Overhead -Pepper Overhead-Cabbage Overhead-Carrot Overhead-fodder
Discount rate (15%) 221294 30323 27061 16889 25817 4626
Discount rate (18%) 191100 25532 22464 13587 21378 2885
Discount rate (24%) 145670 18375Smallholder Irrigation
15619 8698
Development 14772 354
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 Energy

It is a very well known fact that the development of a given nation

is directly proportional to the amount of energy consumption.

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 ETHIOPIA ENERGY PROFILE

GERD
Exclusive

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SOLAR ENERGY POTENTIAL ETHIOPIA

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 SOLAR ENERGY POTENTIAL ETHIOPIA

The semi-arid and desert areas in the eastern part and the northern-central part of

Ethiopia have the highest radiation intensity 6.5-7.5 kWh/m2/day, while the other

parts of the land have radiation in the range of 4.5-6.0 kWh/m2/day.

Ethiopia has annual total solar energy reserve of 2.199 million TWh/annum.

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Role of Private sectors via PPP linkage

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