2025-09-09
27 分钟Hello and welcome to World Business Report on the BBC World Service.
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Coming up today will be in Ethiopia as after a decade and a half,
the country's opening a power project, it thinks that could transform its economy.
We'll hear from the project manager at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam very shortly here on the program.
Also today,
new electric car batteries that promise to end your range anxiety and power up our EVs in super quick time.
manufacturers that produce and sell cars in Europe are going to be benefiting from this technology.
This is a really good opportunity for those players to get their hands on some of the best batteries in the world.
Yeah, we'll hear more about that a little bit later on here on World Business Report.
Fourteen years and five billion dollars in the making.
One of the world's biggest hydroelectric power projects.
The grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam opened on Tuesday to that fanfare,
among other celebrations have lasted now for a couple of days.
For a project Ethiopia believes could transform its economy and provide power to tens of millions of Ethiopians currently living off the grid.
Our reporter, Calcadone Yabetal, has been hearing from some of them.
Getenesh's village in southern Ethiopia, which is less than 10 kilometers away from Hawassa,
one of the country's major cities.
Yet, it doesn't have access to electricity.