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POWER WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup energy, powering more than 2.6mn homes and
Global (NRG Power), in which the reader is supporting thousands of new jobs, said the US
invited to join our team of international editors, Department of the Interior (DoI).
who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will like ENERGO: Severstal to phase out thermal
NRG Power’s new concise format, but by clicking coal by 1Q22
on the headline link for each section the full text Russian steel major Severstal has announced
will be available. that it will stop producing thermal coal at its
Vorgashorskaya mine (part of Vorkutaugol’s
ASIAELEC: Sembcorp to buy up solar and Resource Division) as early as 1Q22, while local
wind projects in India power stations will switch from thermal coal to
Singapore’s Sembcorp is looking to acquire gas.
Indian solar and wind projects as it aims to quad- Severstal said that the switch from thermal
ruple its Indian renewable capacity to 10 GW by coal to gas would “significantly reduce the com-
2025. pany’s emissions and improve the local envi-
Sembcorp’s Indian units aims to halve its ronment in the Vorkuta Municipal District,”
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 and improving its ESG rating.
achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

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for offshore wind development off New York
and New Jersey. The sale will be the administra-
tion’s first, and the ninth overall.
The area, which has shallow waters, could
accommodate more than 7 GW of offshore wind

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