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POWER WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup REM: Chinese turbine maker may soon enter
Global (NRG Power), in which the reader is UK offshore wind market
invited to join our team of international editors, Mingyang Smart Energy, the Chinese wind tur-
who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues bine manufacturer, may soon sell its turbines to
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will like a UK floating project. Hexicon has appointed
NRG Power’s new concise format, but by clicking Mingyang as the preferred turbine supplier for
on the headline link for each section the full text a floating wind project in the UK.
will be available.

AsiaElec: Bangladesh looking to Asian big guns ENERGO: Czech-based EPH expands on the
to boost renewables Dutch energy market
The Bangladeshi government is starting to look Czech-based energy conglomerate EPH,
to some of its larger East Asian neighbours for owned by the Czech and Slovak billionaire duo
aid in meeting a pledge given at the COP26 Cli- of Daniel Kretinsky and Patrik Tkac, has ac-
mate Summit in Glasgow just under a year ago. quired 100% of the gas-fired power plant Sloe
As the world watched, Bangladesh promised to in Zeeland, Holland, with an installed capacity
source 40% of its electricity from renewable en- of 870 MW. The acquisition from Dutch PZEM
ergy sources by the year 2041. and French EDF, which each owned 50% of
Sloe, follows the French government’s full na-
tionalisation of EDF and disposal of some of its
assets, including the Dutch ones. .

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