Conducive conditions have also been created for participation of people in the trade and industry sectors. In the various sub-sectors of small scale enterprises, employment opportunities for over 1.5 million citizens have been created. Meaningful support in terms of availability of credit and provision of training as well as allocation of land for production plants and sales facilities have been provided. Energy development has a significant place in the development agenda of the Government. Large scale energy development activities have been undertaken to fulfill the high energy demands of the country‟s development. The power generating capacity of the Country has risen to 2,718 MW from the 714 MW in 2005. The Government now has plans to generate more than 10,000 MW of energy by the end of the Growth and Transformation Plan. For this, the Government and the nation is devoting every effort to complete the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the Gibe III (1,870 MW) and Genale Dawa III (254 MW) dams as well as wind farms of 120 MW and 75 MW from Aluto Langano, and geothermal expansion projects now under construction. The Government is undertaking construction of power transmitters and dispenser/distributor lines with high, medium and low voltage to expand the use of energy. Currently power transmission lines with a capacity of 400 kilovolt have reached 11,000 kilometers and the Government is undertaking efforts to increase this to 17,000 kilometers by the end of the Growth and Transformation Plan period. Likewise, the power distribution lines of 0.4, 15 and 33 kilo Volt have reached 140,000 kilometers and massive works are in progress to expand this to 258,000 kilometers. Overall, about 6000 cities and rural villages are now receiving electricity currently with supplies reaching about 50 percent of the country. When all the new projects are fully functional, there will also be power available for export on a substantial level. In parallel with expanding main electricity services, in particular in areas where electric lines could not previously reach, activities are being encouraged to make use of alternate energy. To combat the use of forest products for energy, the government has been encouraging improved use of biogas technologies in particular in rural areas. More than 4.2 million families have been using alternate energy and plans are now to more than double this e number. 25,000 solar panels have been distributed and further activities are being undertaken to generate power from sunlight and extend the numbers of users to 3 million. Small scale water energy generating constructions that benefit rural areas are another activity being encouraged, and around 10 million power saving bulbs have 118