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POWER WELCOME to NewsBase’s Power Roundup REM: British prime minister may U-turn on
Global (NRG Power), in which the reader is onshore wind
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
AsiaElec: China makes advances in nuclear opposition in their constituencies.
power capacity
China is quietly upping its reliance on nuclear ENERGO: Three contenders reportedly in race
energy. So much so that with 53 plants now op- for Enel’s €1.9bn of Romanian energy assets
erating across the country, Beijing is generating Greece’s Public Power Corp (PPC), advised
a level of electricity capacity currently ranked by Goldman Sachs, is reportedly competing
as third in the world. In the next five years, this against the energy funds Brookfield Asset Man-
number is expected to rapidly approach 100 agement (Canada) and Amber Infrastructure
plants online as 23 new nuclear power facilities (United Kingdom) in the race for Enel’s Roma-
currently under construction come online, and nian assets. Italian utility group Enel recently
multiple other projects are given the green light announced plans to sell its subsidiaries in sev-
by the central government in Beijing. eral countries including Romania next year.
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