Abstract
This report is a deliverable as required by the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the assignment regarding CAPACITY BUILDING IN WIND ATLAS AND WIND RESOURCE AND ENERGY YIELD ASSESSMENT – WASP TRAINING under the Enhanced Denmark Ethiopia Energy Partnership (DEEP) programme, which aims to build upon the achievements of previous initiatives and further strengthen the energy partnership between Denmark and Ethiopia.
The DEEP programme is a Government-to-Government Cooperation that aims to provide technical assistance from Danish governmental institutions to Ethiopia’s Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE), Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), and Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU). This engagement with the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) addresses two tracks of the partnership collaboration
- the university component that aims to facilitate collaboration between Ethiopian and Danish universities to further enhance knowledge sharing and capacity building
- the component including capacity building towards the EEP and MoWE
The assignment defined by the ToR is under the Framework Agreement between the DEA and the DTU Consortium for Position 3 of the Global Cooperation coordinated by the DEA regarding Onshore- and Offshore Wind Development.
For this assignment the team from the Danish Universities consists of Jens Carsten Hansen and Brian Ohrbeck Hansen, Technical University of Denmark – Department of Wind and Energy Systems (DTU Wind).
The Ethiopian universities that are partners in this cooperation are Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT), Adama Science and Technology University (ASTU) and Mekelle University (EiT-M) and the energy sector institutional partners are Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) and Ministry of water and energy (MoWE).
Wind power represents a low-cost solution for Ethiopia. In the Ethiopian Energy Outlook, it is described how an equal expansion of hydro and wind power can be the basis for fulfilling the goals. The overall objective of the assignment is to build institutional capacity in Ethiopian partners in wind resource assessment and energy yield assessment towards raising awareness of the potential of wind energy in Ethiopia. This will build towards creating a foundation for framework readiness for windfarm investment decisions.
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has been a consultant on wind development in Ethiopia for several years as part of the DEEP program.
This report presents DTU’s preliminary recommendations for a continued project cooperation between the Ethiopian partners and DTU for the creation a new updated Wind Atlas for Ethiopia. The recommendations are based on the results and information found from the validations done by DTU of a) the WB/DTU Phase 1 Wind Atlas for Ethiopia and b) the Global Wind Atlas, using wind data from the measurement campaign in Ethiopia funded by the WB-ESMAP and Denmark, which has delivered publicly available datasets from 17 measurement masts – all available at energydata.info.
The DEEP programme is a Government-to-Government Cooperation that aims to provide technical assistance from Danish governmental institutions to Ethiopia’s Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE), Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), and Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU). This engagement with the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) addresses two tracks of the partnership collaboration
- the university component that aims to facilitate collaboration between Ethiopian and Danish universities to further enhance knowledge sharing and capacity building
- the component including capacity building towards the EEP and MoWE
The assignment defined by the ToR is under the Framework Agreement between the DEA and the DTU Consortium for Position 3 of the Global Cooperation coordinated by the DEA regarding Onshore- and Offshore Wind Development.
For this assignment the team from the Danish Universities consists of Jens Carsten Hansen and Brian Ohrbeck Hansen, Technical University of Denmark – Department of Wind and Energy Systems (DTU Wind).
The Ethiopian universities that are partners in this cooperation are Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT), Adama Science and Technology University (ASTU) and Mekelle University (EiT-M) and the energy sector institutional partners are Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) and Ministry of water and energy (MoWE).
Wind power represents a low-cost solution for Ethiopia. In the Ethiopian Energy Outlook, it is described how an equal expansion of hydro and wind power can be the basis for fulfilling the goals. The overall objective of the assignment is to build institutional capacity in Ethiopian partners in wind resource assessment and energy yield assessment towards raising awareness of the potential of wind energy in Ethiopia. This will build towards creating a foundation for framework readiness for windfarm investment decisions.
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has been a consultant on wind development in Ethiopia for several years as part of the DEEP program.
This report presents DTU’s preliminary recommendations for a continued project cooperation between the Ethiopian partners and DTU for the creation a new updated Wind Atlas for Ethiopia. The recommendations are based on the results and information found from the validations done by DTU of a) the WB/DTU Phase 1 Wind Atlas for Ethiopia and b) the Global Wind Atlas, using wind data from the measurement campaign in Ethiopia funded by the WB-ESMAP and Denmark, which has delivered publicly available datasets from 17 measurement masts – all available at energydata.info.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark |
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| Publisher | DTU Wind and Energy Systems |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
| Series | DTU Wind Energy I |
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| Number | I-1824 |