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¶ Sri Lanka will build a final large scale hydro power plant at an estimated cost of $60 million, the Minister of Power and Renewable Energy said. The proposed hydro power plant will be constructed on the Seethawaka River and will add 20 MW to the national grid. The project will be developed as a mini-hydro plant. [Colombo Page]

View of the Randenigala Dam and its spillways from downstream. Rantembe, Sri Lanka. Photo by Rehman Abubakr. CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons.

¶ Portugal’s EDP and Spain’s Gestamp Wind were among the companies awarded contracts to build and operate wind farms in Brazil. The contracts were for 20 wind farms with a combined capacity of 929.3 MW, and 33 solar plants with a combined capacity of 548.2 MW. All must be operational within two years. [Latin American Herald Tribune]

¶ Britain will no longer pursue green…