The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation has connected more than 270,000 new customers

Addis Ababa, August 16, 2007 (EEPCo) - The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has reportedly connected more than 270,000 new customers while achieving 94 percent  performance in generation construction, rehabilitation, maintenance and other planned activities in the year 2006/07.

Performance in new customer connection, rehabilitation, preventive maintenance, new line extension and other planned activities under distribution expansion has been 99 percent of the plan, it was learnt.

Accordingly the performance in the current year exceeds those of 2004/05-2005/06 by 718%, 514%, 170%, 53%, and 56% respectively.

Meanwhile, EEPCo has electrified 758 towns and villages in 2006/07, in the second year of implementation of the equity principle based Universal Electrification Access Program meant to electrify 6000 towns and villages up to 2009/10.

EEPCo has also, in the stated period, increased access to electricity to 22 percent from 16 percent during 2004/05.

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