AAU Energy
Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power Generation in Ethiopia – LastWind
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News:
Yajuan Guan presents a LastWind paper, which is first-authored by Jun-xin Song, on a generation capacity-based harmonic emission allocation method for multi-WPP grid integration, at IEEE World Symposium on Electrical Systems (WSES), 7th June 2025, Lanzhou, China.
Mahshid Javidsharifi presents a LastWind paper about assessment of wind energy potential in Ethiopia with a case study of the Sela Dengay Wind Farm at IEEE 7th Global Power, Energy and Communication Conference (IEEE GPECOM2025), June 11-13, 2025, Bochum, Germany.
An online workshop with all partners and the Advisory Board (Energinet, the Danish Energy Agency, and the Embassy of Denmark in Ethiopia) was successfully held on 6 December 2024. Project progress, results, and outcomes were presented and discussed.
Mohib Ullah presents a LastWind paper about Analysis of Power Quality Improvement Techniques Applied to Grid-connected Wind Power Plants at the IEEE 15th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), June 23rd - 26th, Luxembourg, 2024.
Yun Yu presents a LastWind paper about Inertial-Response Preserved Active Damping of Grid-Forming Voltage-Source Converters Using Fractional-Order Regulators at the IEEE 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2024-ECCE Asia), Chengdu, China, May 17th – 21st, 2024, pp. 1209-1214.
LastWind project kick-off meeting was held online on 14th August 2023. All the project partners and their representatives joined the kick-off meeting.
Grant and Period
Project period: 2023 - 2026.
LastWind is sponsored by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and supported by Danida Fellowship Centre.
Project No- 23-M01-AAU.
Summary
Ethiopia has a large renewable energy generation potential based upon its natural resources, such as hydro, wind, solar and geothermal. The estimated wind resource of the country reaches 1,350 GW. Currently, only 44 % of Ethiopian residents have access to energy. Ethiopia has set an ambitious target to supply 100% of its domestic energy demand by 2025, combining on- and off-grid electrification, as well export demand to the East Africa Power Pool countries, through renewable energy by 2030. Ethiopia’s current electrical energy supply system encompasses 90% of the total installed capacity from hydropower plants, 8% from wind farms, and the remaining 2% from diesel generators, waste-to-energy and geothermal power plants. Thus, as most of the current electricity generation in Ethiopia is sourced from hydropower, the supply stability is therefore affected due to major power outages in the dry season – latest experienced in the spring of 2019.
LastWind aims at assessing and proposing novel solutions to the large-scale integration of WPPs into the Ethiopian grid, in order to achieve unprecedented levels of wind power penetration while endowing to the grid stability, robustness, and flexibility. The scope of LastWind is control, modelling, stability analysis, and power quality enhancement of large integration of WPPs to maximize the power supply mix into the Ethiopian power grid in a secure and reliable manner. LastWind will propose and develop planning tools, grid-forming controllers for WPPs and their ancillary services, modelling for stability analysis, harmonics and resonance mitigation solutions, and coordinated control strategies. The research outcomes will be based in real data from the Ethiopian power system and meteorological agencies, such that the findings will impact the Ethiopian energy sector and provide worthwhile information for the renewable energy road map of Ethiopia and all decision makers and stakeholders, including energy authorities, electrical grid operator, and potential investors. Moreover, LastWind will give an impetus to applied research for both Ethiopian and Danish partner universities and therefore will result in technical resource development in the area of wind-power coordination, integration, and management.
LastWind is related with the following sustainable development goals: SDG7 (affordable and clean energy) and SDG 13 (climate action). The project will align to the Strategic Sector Cooperation (SSC) project and Enhanced Danish-Ethiopian Energy Partnership, but more in deep in research and addressing technical challenges.
