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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
AsiaElec: India set for 3.6 GW of green open ushered through the pro-renewables Inflation
access capacity in 2023 Reduction Act (IRA), which he signed in Au-
India could add a record 3.6 GW of open access gust.
renewable capacity in 2023 as industrial con-
sumers look to lower electricity costs and meet ENERGO: Turkey’s Karpowership anchors
sustainability goals. Researchers JMK in India seventh floating power plant off energy-short
said that growth in the country’s open access Cuba
market should continue to recover in 2023 fol- Turkey’s Karpowership has reportedly an-
lowing a lull in development in 2019 and 2020. chored a seventh floating power plant operator
offshore Cuba to help ease the Caribbean island
nation’s energy crisis. With Cubans suffering
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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