With the construction of various new dams and growing hydroelectric power projects around the country, Ethiopia also plans to export electric power to its neighbors.
Eskom, however, announced on 20 January 2008 that it had ceased to export power.
The government is considering constructing a coal-fired power plant at the same coal field, which would be designed to export power to South Africa.
The company exports power to Ukraine, Romania and Russia.
The commission said that one strategy used in 2000 - exporting power from California to evade price caps - had worsened the shortage.
Those links shut down as New York was exporting power to Canada.
Serbia still exports power to Austria, but at a lower volume through Hungary.
It is the largest hydroelectric project so far in Laos, exporting power to Thailand and supplying the local area with electricity.
This gap between supply and demand prevents Guinea from actually exporting power.
Ultimately, Japan could be completely self-sufficient, generating all of its own power needs, even exporting power to other nations.