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POWER WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup The company said on July 23 it planned to
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invited to join our team of international editors, upcoming UN COP26 conference in Glasgow,
who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues Scotland, due to take place in November.
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will like
NRG Power’s new concise format, but by clicking ENERGO: Czech Nuclear Power Plant
on the headline link for each section the full text Could Be Expanded By Two More Blocks
will be available. Two new blocks at the Temelin nuclear power
plant (NPP) could be built in the future, once
ASIAELEC: Singapore’s Sunseap To Invest the one currently being constructed at Duk-
$2bn In 2,200-MW Floating Solar And Stor- ovany is finished, Czech Prime Minister Andrej
age Project In Indonesia Babis and Industry Minister Karel Havlicek
Singapore’s Sunseap Group is to invest $2bn in (both ANO) said during their tour at Temelin,
developing a 2,200-MW floating solar plus stor- according to the Czech News Agency.
age project, the largest such solar project to date As Havlicek noted, this has to be decided by
world-wide, on the Indonesian island of Batam. the next government that will come out of the
The development would span around 1,600 autumn general elections. A new bloc could
hectares, and have storage capacity of over 4,000 produce up to 1,600 MW of power, the minister
MWh. said, becoming a stable source of energy once
the remaining coal plants are shut down.
REM: UK Developer Unveils Plans For
World’s First Liquid Hydrogen Bunkering
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the world’s first bunkering facility for liquid hy-
drogen, which it believes will play a vital role in
decarbonising larger-scale shipping.

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