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NewsBase’s Power Roundup

Global [NRG Power]

POWER
WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup 2021. This increase is “encouraging,” given
Global (NRG Power), in which the reader is the challenges faced in 2022
invited to join our team of international edi-
tors, who provide a snapshot of some of the ENERGO: Bankwatch criticises Romania’s at-
key issues affecting their regional beats. We tempt to prolong life of coal-fired power plants
hope you will like NRG Power’s new concise Environmental NGO Bankwatch Romania
format, but by clicking on the headline link for in a statement criticised Romania’s plans to
each section the full text ill be available. develop a mine, operated by CE Oltenia coal
and power group in Gorj county, to a capaci-
AfrElec: Ethiopia signs joint development agree- ty of 8,000,000 tonnes per year of lignite with
ment with UAE’s Masdar for 500-MW solar PV the aim of avoiding even wider energy deficits
facility in the country. “Deforestation and then burn-
Ethiopia and United Arab Emirates renewable ing lignite will have a double negative effect
energy company Masdar have signed a joint devel- on the environment by increasing CO2 emis-
opment agreement for the construction of two sions and reducing the absorption capacities,”
solar photovoltaic plants with a combined gener- argues Alexandra Doroftei, coal campaigner
ation capacity of 500 MW. The deal, announced at Bankwatch Romania.
by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on
Wednesday, January 18, could potentially allow AsiaElec: South Korea, UAE seal nuclear ex-
Ethiopia to significantly expand its power gener- pansion deal
ating capacity and also diversify its energy mix, a South Korea and the United Arab Emirates
key part of Abiy’s industrialisation drive. are to “deepen and accelerate collaboration in
the peaceful nuclear energy sector,” after their
REM: EU wind installations up 33% in 2022 de- leaders signed a series of deals. South Korean
spite challenging supply chain President Yoon Seok-yeol and UAE President
The EU installed 15 GW of new wind farms Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nayhan signed
in 2022, according to preliminary data several memoranda of understanding in Abu
from WindEurope. That’s 33% more than Dhabi on January 15.™

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