The Sudan section of the Ethiopia–Sudan Transmission Interconnector is a proposed 500 kV line intended to carry electricity from Ethiopia into Sudan. The project would strengthen Sudan's supply security and increase bilateral power trade through a high-voltage line, substations and grid connections. The Sudanese component remains at feasibility stage and has not yet reached construction.
<p>This project concerns the Sudan section of a high-voltage Ethiopia-Sudan power interconnection designed to move power from Ethiopia into Sudan and strengthen the Eastern Africa Power Pool. The existing database record describes a 500 kV transmission line ending near Khartoum, with new or upgraded high-voltage substation facilities at Rabak and Jebel Aulia in Sudan and bay extensions linked to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance area and Sudanese network nodes.</p><p>The project has an important history. Ethiopia and Sudan already implemented an earlier interconnector, which the Nile Basin Initiative documents as commissioned around 2010-2013 and used to support regional power trade. That earlier success provides a technical and institutional basis for the larger 500 kV scheme, but it does not by itself validate the very high CAPEX currently stored against this record.</p><p>Validation note: external sources confirm the strategic rationale and earlier Ethiopia-Sudan interconnection history, but I did not find a reliable external source confirming the current capex_cost value of 48,494 in USD million. The financial fields should therefore remain under owner validation before being used in investment material.</p><p><strong>Sources reviewed:</strong> World Bank, Regional Eastern Nile - Ethiopia-Sudan Power System Interconnector Project, https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/935901468201843498; Nile Basin Initiative, Ethiopia-Sudan interconnection success story, https://nilebasin.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/Ethiopia-Sudan%2520interconnection%2520success%2520story.pdf.</p>
<ol><li>Increase cross-border electricity trade between Ethiopia and Sudan.</li><li>Improve power-system stability and reserve sharing.</li><li>Support lower-cost electricity supply through regional hydropower and grid integration.</li><li>Create a platform for wider Eastern Africa Power Pool interconnections.</li></ol>