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POWER WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup REM: Massachusetts approves power contracts
Global (NRG Power), in which the reader is for offshore wind farms despite developers’ ob-
invited to join our team of international editors, jections
who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues Massachusetts regulators have approved pow-
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will like er purchase agreements for two large offshore
NRG Power’s new concise format, but by clicking wind farms despite the developers’ objections.
on the headline link for each section the full text The state Department of Public Utilities (DPU)
will be available. approved the 20-year PPAs for the 1.2-GW
Commonwealth Wind and 1.2-GW Mayflower
AsiaElec: India aims to be global green hydro- wind projects. Both are due to be sited off Mas-
gen giant sachusetts and are slated to come online in 2028
India is to invest an initial INR197.4bn ($2.4bn) and 2025 respectively.
to fund its National Green Hydrogen Mission
as the government aims to turn the country ENERGO: Romanian project company hires
into a global hydrogen centre. The county ex- US NuScale for engineering and design of first
pects to build 125 GW of new renewables ca- SMR nuclear plant
pacity by 2030 in order to power a domestic The Romanian joint-venture RoPower Nucle-
hydrogen industry, which will encompass the ar, owned in equal shares by state-controlled
production, use and export of renewable H2 Nuclearelectrica and private energy company
and its derivatives. Nova Power & Gas, marked a significant step
toward the deployment of the first small mod-
ular reactor (SMR) power plant in Romania
when on December 28 it hired the US compa-
ny NuScale Power for engineering and design
work. Phase 1 of the front-end engineering and
design work awarded to NuScale will define the
major site and specific inputs for a VOYGR-6
SMR power plant to be deployed at the Doic-
esti Power Station site in Romania, NuScale an-
nounced in a press release.

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