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POWER WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup REM: COP27: Biden presents US as climate
Global (NRG Power), in which the reader is leader, blasts Putin’s “weaponisation” of fossil
invited to join our team of international editors, fuels
who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues US President Joe Biden spoke at COP27 in
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will like Egypt, hailing the US as a climate leader
NRG Power’s new concise format, but by clicking and meanwhile criticising Russian President
on the headline link for each section the full text Vladimir Putin’s weaponisation of oil and gas.
will be available. Biden attended the packed summit on Novem-
ber 11, recalling how his administration had
ushered through the pro-renewables Inflation
AfrElec: Sonatrach, Eni build 10-MW solar Reduction Act (IRA), which he signed in Au-
power plant in Algeria’s Berkine basin gust.
Algeria’s state energy group, Sonatrach, and Ita-
ly’s Eni started construction work on a 10-MW ENERGO: Turkey’s Karpowership anchors
solar project and a solar efficiency testing lab in seventh floating power plant off energy-short
Algeria’s Bir Rebaa Nord inside the oil produc- Cuba
tion complex in the Berkine basin, according to a Turkey’s Karpowership has reportedly an-
joint statement on Thursday, November 17. This chored a seventh floating power plant operator
will be the second solar facility in the complex offshore Cuba to help ease the Caribbean island
after the 10-MW plant that was inaugurated in nation’s energy crisis. With Cubans suffering
2018. daily, hours-long blackouts, Karpowership,
owned by Turkish conglomerate Karadeniz
Holding, was now set to feed an additional 110
megawatts of electricity, or about one-tenth the
average daily generation shortfall, by month’s
end, Turkish daily Sabah reported on Novem-
ber 16.

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