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POWER WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup ciation (ACP). Clean power consists of wind,
Global (NRG Power), in which the reader is utility-scale solar and battery storage. The new
invited to join our team of international editors, projects added to the grid represent $9.3bn in
who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues capital investment.
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will like
NRG Power’s new concise format, but by clicking ENERGO: Baltic states give up Russian electric-
on the headline link for each section the full text ity after Nord Pool halts trade
will be available. The Baltic states have now ceased importing
electricity from Russia after Europe’s Nord
AfrElec: China’s Sinohydro to build $214mn Pool power exchange stopped trading in elec-
hydroelectric plant in Rwanda tricity from the neighbouring country, LRT.lt,
The Rwandan government has started the con- the website of Lithuanian national broadcaster
struction of a brand new power plant, expected LRT, reported on May 23. “Not only is it an ex-
to boost the East African country’s electrical tremely important milestone for Lithuania in
capacity by 43.5 MW by the end of 2024, local its journey towards energy independence, but
publication, The New Timesreports. The Nya- it is also an expression of our solidarity with
barongo II Hydropower Plant, located on the Ukraine. We must stop financing the Russian
Nyabarongo river, will be built by China’s Sino- war machine,” Lithuanian Energy Minister
hydro, a state-owned hydropower engineering Dainius Kreivys said in a statement.
and construction company.
REM: US installs 6.6 GW of clean power in Q1
The United States installed 6.6 GW of new
clean power with 90 projects coming online
in the first quarter of 2022, says a new market
report from the American Clean Power Asso-

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