Ethiopian Electric Power

Ethiopian Electric Power is the national utility you would expect to handle generation, transmission, and the wider electricity system in Ethiopia. By our assessment, that makes it a serious infrastructure company rather than a public-facing brand, and its strength is obvious: it sits at the center of a basic service that has to work every day. The trade-off is also plain, because power utilities are judged by scale, maintenance, and politics more than by polish, and the work is never very elegant. In practice this is a grid-and-plants business, with all the heavy, unglamorous coordination that comes with it. It sits closer to other national electricity authorities than to private energy vendors, and the job is more about keeping the system running than about looking sleek. For anyone trying to understand Ethiopia's power sector, this is one of the names that matters most, and it works best when read as infrastructure first.