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POWER WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup project off the north-eastern US.
Global (NRG Power), in which the reader is If approved by BOEM, the owner Vineyard
invited to join our team of international editors, Wind would be allowed to construct and operate
who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues a project of approximately 2-2.3 GW off Rhode
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will like Island and Massachusetts. Vineyard Wind is
NRG Power’s new concise format, but by clicking a joint venture of Copenhagen Infrastructure
on the headline link for each section the full text Partners and Avangrid Renewables, owned by
will be available. Iberdrola, the Spanish multinational electric
utility.
AFRELEC: Chinese Withdraw From Ambi-
tious Zimbabwe Coal Power Plans ENERGO: Poland’s PKN Orlen Picks GE
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Power To Carry Out Coal To Gas Switch At
(ICBC) has abandoned plans to finance the Ostroleka Power Plant Project
$3bn, 2,800-MW Sengwa coal power project in Warsaw-listed refiner PKN Orlen has picked
northern Zimbabwe. the US company GE Power to build a gas-fired
The bank told Go Clean ICBC, a group of 32 power plant in Ostroleka, the state-controlled
environmental groups, that it would not back company said on June 25.
the project, which is being developed by RioEn- The plant was supposed to be built as
ergy, a unit of RioZim, because of problems in Poland’s last coal-fired power installation but
gaining environmental approval. that plan was abandoned in the wake of criti-
cism by environmental activists as well as inves-
REM: US Government Launches Envi- tors who questioned its economic viability in the
ronmental Review Of 2-2.3 GW Offshore face of rising carbon emissions costs.
Wind Project Off New England
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
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of the construction and operations plan for the Picks for free by email each week here. ™
massive Vineyard Wind South offshore wind

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