Foreign firms also want to export power to Western Europe, provided they can secure long-term contracts.
France has 58 nuclear plants like this which meet 80 percent of its total electricity needs and allow it to export power to Britain, Germany and Italy.
Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, Atomstroiexport, is building the plant under supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency.
While concerns have been raised in recent weeks about the future of North Africa's Desertec project that aims to export solar power to Europe, researchers are far more hopeful about the prospects for local African markets.
"Hydropower is the cheapest electricity you can generate anywhere so Ethiopia has huge advantages for that and Ethiopia will export enough power to make a difference in the economy, " says Henock Assefa, an economist and managing partner of Precise Consult International based in Addis Ababa.
Perhaps it has realised at last that extremists wielding unbridled power from Kabul tend to export disaster across the porous border they share.
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Energy will be the focus of the next summit in Derry in 2013, with Irish prime minister Enda Kenny predicting the export of wind power to Britain.
At the same time, Japan can and should continue to develop nuclear power technology and safety and actively export its technology to overseas markets.
Japanese nuclear-power builders are increasingly looking to export their reactors, as domestic utilities have kept reactors offline and put off plans for any new construction.
And it is considering another alarming project: the export of floating nuclear-power plants to Asia.
In Moscow, the talk is about freeing up the country's vast oil and gas reserves for profitable export, by using nuclear power to meet domestic needs.
We would be able to export much less oil than we would need to power our economy.
Further appreciation will cut into a rising real estate asset bubble, and give Chinese consumers more buying power by encouraging Chinese manufacturers to shift production away from the export markets, to making and marketing goods and services for the domestic market.
The long-term goal is to export more than 6, 000 megawatts of solar-generated power to Europe by 2020.
Weak oil prices may also encourage Russia to earn hard currency wherever else it can and the armaments and nuclear-power industries are among the few bits of the Russian economy with strong export capacity.
It will tilt the balance of power in the region in favor of dictatorship, in favor of the use of force and fear as the instrument of power and in favor of a regime in Tehran whose aim is to export its brand of retrograde, anti-American, anti-women, anti-gay, freedom-suppressing revolution.
Unisys, which makes high-power computer systems for banks and credit card companies, is already anticipating a hassle with export authorities when Intel's Itanium chip debuts later this year.
He wants to increase the purchasing power of millions of poorer Thais so as to make the economy less reliant on the vagaries of the export markets.
It says it needs nuclear power as an alternative energy source to meet booming electricity demand and preserve its large oil and gas reserves for export.
Beijing may adopt other policy measures to support economic activity, such as opening up more strategic industries (eg, railway, power and telecom, and services) to private investment, providing special assistance to small and midsized enterprises and export companies, and, possibly, offering specific consumer spending subsidies.
As long as China's expansion remains export-driven, western politicians may just have to learn to live with a new and unpredictable economic power.
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