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POWER WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup REM: First California offshore wind auction
Global (NRG Power), in which the reader is tops $757mn
invited to join our team of international editors, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak may U-turn on
who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues allowing more onshore wind farms in England.
affecting their regional beats. We hope you will like When he ran for office, Sunak – who has only
NRG Power’s new concise format, but by clicking been in office for a month – said that he would
on the headline link for each section the full text concentrate on offshore wind. Onshore wind
will be available. development has been all but stopped in Eng-
land because Conservative lawmakers fear local
opposition in their constituencies.
AsiaElec: Vietnam targets 28 GW of wind ca-
pacity by 2030
In a conference held by the Global Wind En- ENERGO: Russian coal exports hit fresh highs
ergy Council in Hanoi earlier in the week, host after EU shipping sanctions were softened
nation Vietnam came under the spotlight as a Russian exports of coal have soared to fresh
country with “some of the best wind resources highs after the EU softened sanctions on Eu-
globally”, according to a post-conference state- ropean shipping companies, allowing them to
ment released by GWEC. Continuing “The carry goods worldwide shortly after a ban was
Power Development Plan, currently in draft imposed in August as part of the fifth package
form, has targets of 7 GW of offshore wind and of sanctions. The fifth package was imposed in
21 GW of onshore wind by 2030,” the interna- April. It was the first package to target Russia’s
tional trade association for the wind power in- energy business, as it banned European compa-
dustry highlighted the potential for large-scale nies from seaborne shipments of coal and went
wind power generation in a country so long in into effect on August 10.
the shadows of bigger markets in East Asia. .

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