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POWER Welcome to the latest edition of NewsBase’s AsiaElec: Indonesia’s coal addiction proving
NRG Power Roundup Global in which the very hard to kick
reader is invited to join our team of international As a coal exporting nation, Indonesia’s days
editors, who provide a snapshot of some of the are supposedly numbered. Yet having re-
key issues affecting their regional beats in Asia, ceived billions of dollars to move beyond fos-
Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the sil fuel use, there is little evidence the nation
global summary of renewable energy and climate is actually doing so, or even wants to do so.
change mitigation. We hope you will like NRG
Power’s concise format, but by clicking on the ENERGO: Joint venture to develop 1 GW of
headline link for each section the full text will be onshore wind in Poland
available. If you would like to receive NRG Power Renewable Power Capital (RPC) and
Editor’s Picks every week to your inbox for free Tundra Advisory have announced a joint
then please click on the link here and fill in the venture to develop up to 1 GW of onshore
form. wind in Poland. This is RPC’s entry into
the onshore wind market in Poland. The
AfrElec: Examining the risks of Africa going partners have already identified more
nuclear than 500 MW of potential sites.
African countries, like the rest of the
world, have inevitably entered the energy REM: Wind, solar slash gas costs in EU by
transition. Mounting international pres- $12.7bn since Russia invaded Ukraine
sure to drastically reduce the produc- The growth of wind and solar power has helped
tion of carbon dioxide (CO2) is forcing to cut natural gas costs by €12bn ($12.7bn) in
African countries to look away from coal the EU since Russia invaded Ukraine just over a
and into renewables and nuclear power year ago. The crisis in Ukraine brought to light
generation. the high cost of relying on fossil fuel imports.
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