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Reunion Island turns to biomass to power itself

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September 22, 2022

Reunion, a tiny French island in the Indian Ocean, wants to switch completely to green energy production by next year. To reach this goal, coal-fired power plants will become biomass factories, solar and wind energy will be expanded.

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