Located in the northeastern part of Africa, with an average elevation of nearly 3,000 meters, Ethiopia is known as the “African Roof” and is an important node along the “Belt and Road”. It is known as the “East Africa Water Tower” and has a hydropower potential of 45 million kilowatts. If it can be fully exploited and utilized, it can not only meet the electricity needs of Ethiopia, but also solve the problem of more than 100 million people in neighboring countries such as Sudan, South Sudan and Kenya. Power shortage problem.

Ethiopia's GDHA500 kV power transmission and transformation project Holeata substation, which covers an area of ​​330,000 square meters, is currently the largest substation in Africa, and is of great significance to promoting Ethiopia's economic development and improving the living conditions of local people. Cooperation has a good demonstration role.

Jin Mingguang, field executive manager of the Ethiopian O&M Project of China Power Technology Equipment Co., Ltd. said: "On the schematic diagram of the Ethiopian National Grid, we can see a red transmission line from west to east pointing directly to the Blue Nile. This is the GDHA500 kV transmission and transformation project. "This project marks the successful entry of Chinese equipment into Africa and is a major breakthrough in the "going out" of China's national grid transmission technology, equipment and engineering general contracting.