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POWER WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup REM: New US climate bill likely to become law,
Global (NRG Power), in which the reader is deliver 525-550 GW of clean power by 2030
invited to join our team of international editors, The American Clean Power Association ex-
who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues pects the Inflation Reduction Act 2022 (IRA) to
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will like deliver 525–550 GW of new utility-scale clean
NRG Power’s new concise format, but by clicking power between 2022-2030. The bill was passed
on the headline link for each section the full text by one vote in the US Senate on August 7,three
will be available. days after hold-out moderate DemocratSenator
Kyrsten Sinema said she would support it.
AfrElec: Zimbabwe, Zambia sovereign defaults
push up cost of $4.5bn Batoka Gorge project ENERGO: Russia plans to switch Zaporizhzhia
Sovereign debt defaults by Zambia and Zimba- NPP from Ukrainian to Russian grid
bwe have escalated the cost of a planned hydro- Russia wants to switch Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia
electric power plant that the southern African nuclear power plant to the Russian grid in or-
neighbours will co-own. They engaged US giant der to transfer power to occupied Crimea,
General Electric and Power Construction Cor- Ukraine Business news reported on August 10.
poration of China Ltd in 2019 to build the 2,400- The Zaporizhzhia NPP, Europe’s largest plant,
MW project on a site along the Zambezi River, has beenunder Russian occupationsince early
which forms part of their border. March following a shocking attack that Zelens-
kiy labeled “a night that could have stopped the
history of Ukraine and Europe”.

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