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POWER WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup ENERGO: Severstal to phase out thermal
Global (NRG Power), in which the reader is coal by 1Q22
invited to join our team of international editors, Russian steel major Severstal has announced
who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues that it will stop producing thermal coal at its
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will like Vorgashorskaya mine (part of Vorkutaugol’s
NRG Power’s new concise format, but by clicking Resource Division) as early as 1Q22, while local
on the headline link for each section the full text power stations will switch from thermal coal to
will be available. gas.
Severstal said that the switch from thermal
AFRELEC: Globeleq begins grid-scale solar coal to gas would “significantly reduce the com-
storage project in Mozambique pany’s emissions and improve the local envi-
Africa-focused IPP Globeleq has begun to build ronment in the Vorkuta Municipal District,”
a 9-MW solar and 7-MWh energy storage pro- improving its ESG rating.
ject at Cuamba in northern Mozambique.
The $32mn plant is one of the first IPP grid-
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REM: Biden’s wind support moves forward
The Biden administration will auction leases
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
energy, powering more than 2.6mn homes and
supporting thousands of new jobs, said the US
Department of the Interior (DoI).

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