Abstract:
Ethiopia has a huge renewable energy (micro-hydropower, solar PV and wind energy)
potential that has not been used for rural electrification. The Ejersachumlugo village
which has Ejersa and Chumlugo parts found at south east Ethiopia far 343km from
Addis Ababa and not electrified. The specific studies area is Chumlugo part which far
from the grid 15.6km on Meribo River. In this thesis, assessment of micro hydropower
(MHP) potential of “Meribo River has been done. Some of the data needed has been
gathered from Ministry of Water Irrigation and Energy of Ethiopia (MoWIE), central
statistical Agency of Ethiopia and the rest is collected, measured from field work. Some
part of the Local load estimation for the village has been done with lighting, cocking,
radio and TV loads considered as home loads, clinic ,mosque and school lighting
considered as general community loads. MATLAB software used for Modeling and
simulating the general system of the village. The calculated result shows that the
generated electricity is more enough to supply the local loads considered with the
generated energy of 9.37kW.
