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who provide a snapshot of some of the key issues the energy transition, current net-zero pledges
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AFRELEC: Hwange Expansion Makes Solid ENERGO: Turkey Launches New 1,000-
Progress MW Mini Solar Tenders
Zimbabwe’s Chinese-funded $1.5bn expansion Turkey will on March 30, 2022 collect initial
to the Hwange coal-fired power station is now bids in tenders for the construction and oper-
68% complete, despite delays caused by the coro- ation of 15 wind plants with a combined in-
navirus (COVID-19) pandemic. stalled capacity of 1,000 MW under the YEKA
Zimbabwe Power Co. (ZPC) said that the GES-4 (Renewable Energy Source Areas, Solar
addition of units 7 and 8 at the plant would Power Plants-4) round, the energy ministry
add 600 MW of capacity to the country’s pow- said on July 14.
er-starved grid and contribute to ending the Each of three plants in Bor in Nigde Prov-
country’s reliance on power imports. ince, located in the Central Anatolia region, will
have 100 MW of capacity. Two plants in Erzin,
in the southern Hatay province on the border
REM: Wind CEOs Warn G20 To “Get Seri- with Syria, will have 100-MW capacities and the
ous” About Renewable Energy remaining 10 plants in Viransehir in Sanliurfa
Leading CEOs of the global wind industry are province on the Syrian border will have 50-MW
calling on G20 members to show leadership in capacities.
the climate crisis by raising national ambitions
and are urgently laying out concrete plans for
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Twenty-three CEOs from the Global Wind

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