Foreign firms also want to export power to Western Europe, provided they can secure long-term contracts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We would be able to export much less oil than we would need to power our economy.
The long-term goal is to export more than 6, 000 megawatts of solar-generated power to Europe by 2020.
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.
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.
As China moves from an export-driven, investment-led economy toward domestic consumption growth, the nation depends on the rising buying power of its workforce.
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.
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