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WELCOME to the latest edition of NewsBase’s 1bn tonnes of coal to be mined during the
NRG Power Roundup Global in which the reader next financial year. Making up the lion’s share
is invited to join our team of international editors, of the total will be the 780mn tonnes allocat-
who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues ed to the state-owned Coal India Ltd, local
affecting their regional beats in Asia, Africa, Cen- media reports say.
tral and Eastern Europe, as well as the global sum-
mary of renewable energy and climate change ENERGO: Serbia signs €8.5mn grant agree-
mitigation. We hope you will like NRG Power’s ment on Trans-Balkan electricity transmission
concise format, but by clicking on the headline corridor
link for each section the full text will be available. If The Serbian government said on January 23 it
you would like to receive NRG Power Editor’s Picks has signed a grant agreement of €8.5mn with
every week to your inbox for free then please click Germany’s KfW for the implementation of
on the link here and fill in the form. the fourth section of the Trans-Balkan elec-
tricity transmission corridor. The corridor is
AfrElec: South Africa turns to Turkey’s Karpower- connecting the electricity transmission sys-
ship amid worst ever power shortages tems of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro
South Africa has reportedly made a new approach and Serbia with Croatia, Hungary, Romania
to Turkey’s Karpowership as it seeks to address its and Italy through 400-kV overhead lines and
worst ever power shortages, which are causing the submarine cables.
introduction of blackouts that last for 10 hours a
day or longer. The country’s previous approach to REM: UK’s Crown Estate signs six leases for 8
source 1,220 MW of emergency power from the GW of offshore wind projects, enough to power
company’s powerships became bogged down in 7mn homes
legal challenges. The UK’s Crown Estate has signed six leases
around the coastlines of England and Wales for
AsiaElec: India targets record-breaking coal 8 GW of offshore wind projects. Together, the
output by FY23-24 projects could power 7mn homes by 2030, said
The government of India has set a target of the government agency.
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