Mes: enero 2021

NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — LaLiga North America, together with global sports agency ISL, is launching LaLiga Next: a platform that will provide young American soccer players, between the ages of 14 to 18, the opportunity to showcase their talent and start a professional soccer career in a LaLiga youth club.

The launch of LaLiga Next is an important milestone for LaLiga in the United States, as it is the first legitimate selection/recruitment process for youth American soccer players led by an international sports league in North America.

This project is part of LaLiga North America’s action plan to contribute to the growth of soccer in the United States, while continuing to provide all resources and opportunities to help American talent in its preparation for the 2026 World Cup.

With these types of initiatives, LaLiga is encouraging and facilitating the arrival of new American talents to Spain at a young age, such as Sergiño Dest and Konrad De La Fuente from FC Barcelona, and Yunus Musah from Valencia FC.

«LaLiga Next aims to contribute to the development of young American talent, providing players an opportunity to showcase their talent, an experience that will step up their game, and ultimately, the chance to kick off their dream of becoming a professional soccer player and one day represent their country in the World Cup,» says Nicolás García Hemme, VP of Strategy & Business Development for LaLiga North America. «Our goal is to collaborate with local clubs to become their international recruitment arm and continue to add new locations every year in different American regions.»

This unprecedented initiative will start between June 21st and July 13th, with several Talent ID held across different cities in the United States and is expected to gather thousands of participants. Approximately 60 players will be selected from LaLiga scouts to embark on a Spanish Showcase in Madrid. During a period of 10 days, this group of players will train and compete with the best clubs in Spain under the supervision of different technical directors from LaLiga youth cubs, who will recruit the best player from each age category to participate in a sponsored training camp with a LaLiga youth club.

«Soccer in the US is becoming a reference in the production of talent; Dest, Pulisic, Musah, Tyler Adams, Reyna just to name a few. The common trait of all these American players is that they have experience overseas. For that reason, we strongly believe that having an established path such as LaLiga Next will enable aspiring professional soccer players in the United States achieve their dreams,» explains Marc Segarra, ISL Co-founder.

LaLiga Next will open the doors of European soccer to American players, creating a quality reference in US soccer, while positioning Spain as an attractive market for young US players.

For more information please visit www.laliganext.com.

ABOUT LALIGA NORTH AMERICA:
LaLiga North America is a joint venture between LaLiga and Relevent Sports Group, which serves as the exclusive representation of LaLiga in the U.S. and Canada for all business and development activities. The operation supports the league’s growth in the region through consumer-related activities including content development, events and activations, marketing agreements, youth academies, development of youth soccer coaches, exhibition matches and plans to have an official LaLiga Santander match played in the U.S.

ABOUT ISL:
ISL is a global, fast-growing, full-scale Sports Marketing and Management agency HQ in Miami. Since founding the company in 2013 ISL has helped the largest and most valuable sports brands in the world reach the US market. ISL’s clients portafolio range from renowned soccer institutions such as FCBarcelona, Manchester City, or Real Madrid to soccer players including Luis Suarez, Marcelo Viera and many others.Over the last decade ISL has organized over 1500 soccer events with over 100,000 clients around the world, from 45 different States in North America, to Spain and Costa Rica, building out a remarkable market share within the sports industry.

Contact: Ben Sosenko, bsosenko@rsgrp.com

SOURCE LaLiga North America

BEIJING, Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Huaneng Power International, Inc. («HPI», the «Company») (NYSE: HNP; HKEx: 902; SSE: 600011) today announced its power generation for the whole year of 2020.

According to the preliminary statistics of the Company, for the fourth quarter of 2020, the Company’s total power generation by power plants within China on consolidated basis amounted to 110.410 billion kWh, representing an increase of 7.38% over the same period of 2019. Total electricity sold by the Company amounted to 103.979 billion kWh, representing an increase of 3.78% over the same period of 2019. For the whole year of 2020, the Company’s total power generation by the power plants within China on consolidated basis amounted to 404.016 billion kWh, representing a decrease of 0.24% over the same period of 2019, and the total electricity sold by the Company amounted to 379.894 billion kWh, representing a decrease of 2.14% over the same period of 2019. For the whole year of 2020, the Company’s average on-grid electricity settlement price for its power plants within China amounted to RMB413.63 per MWh, representing a decrease of 0.81% over the same period of 2019. For the whole year of 2020, the Company’s market based electricity sold amounted to 221.405 billion kWh, with a ratio of 58.33% comparing to the corresponding total electricity sold, representing an increase of 1.93 percentage points compared to the same period of 2019.

The decrease in the Company’s annual power generation was mainly attributable to:

1. In the first half of 2020, as affected by the pandemic, the electricity demand in the society as a whole decreased drastically, resulting in a significant decrease in power generation of the Company in the first half of the year. Although the Company achieved a year-on-year growth in both the third and fourth quarters, its annual power generation still decreased by 0.24% year-on-year.
2. This year, substantial amount of new power generation units, such as wind power and PV power, have been put into operation in China. Also, there is more water in the summer, and clean energy on-grid has been further increased, thereby squeezing the space for growth in thermal power generation.
3. The number of newly operated thermal power generation units in the region where the Company is located increased, resulting in a decrease in the average utilization hours of the local area. With fewer new thermal power units by the Company and the total installed capacity in the regions increases, the Company’s capacity proportionate share decreases, resulting in a year-on-year decrease in thermal power generation..

The power generations (in billion kWh) of the Company, by regions, are listed below:

In the fourth quarter of 2020, the power generation of Tuas Power Limited in Singapore, which is wholly owned by the Company, accounted for a market share of 21.2% in Singapore, representing a decrease of 0.2 percentage points compared to the same period of 2019; the annual accumulated power generation accounted for a market share of 21.4%, representing an increase of 0.7 percentage point compared to the same period last year.

In the fourth quarter of 2020, the Company’s capacity of newly installed units is as follows: (unit: MW)

In the fourth quarter of 2020, the Company completed the acquisition of the wind power assets of Shandong Huaneng Laizhou Wind Power Co., Ltd. (53.25 MW), thereby increasing the Company’s controlled installed capacity by 53.25 MW and the equity-based installed capacity by 42.6 MW.

In the fourth quarter of 2020, the operation of Unit No. 2 (352 MW) of Huaneng Nantong Power Plant, Unit No. 4 (138MW) and Unit No. 5 (138MW) of Haikou Power Plant and Unit No. 1 (600MW) of Tuas Power Plant, being subsidiaries of the Company, has expired. The shutdown procedures were completed, and the above mentioned units are no longer included in the statistics of Company’s installed capacity.

At the same time, the installed capacity of certain power plants invested by the Company changed in the fourth quarter of 2020.

In conclusion, as of 31 December 2020, the Company had a controlled installed capacity of 113,357 MW, and an equity-based installed capacity of 98,948 MW.

About Huaneng Power International, Inc.
Huaneng Power International, Inc. is one of China’s largest listed power producers with controlled generation capacity of 113,357 MW and equity-based generation capacity of 98,948 MW. The power plants of the Company are located in 26 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China. The Company also has a wholly-owned power company in Singapore, and an invested power company in Pakistan.

For enquiries, please contact:
Huaneng Power International, Inc.                   
Ms. ZHU Tao / Ms. ZHAO Lin / Mr. CHEN Zhelu                                 
Tel:  (8610) 6608 6750 / 6322 6596 / 6322 6554
Fax: (8610) 6322 6888        
Email: zqb@hpi.com.cn

Wonderful Sky Financial Group Limited
Ms. Ketrina Yang / Ms. Karly Lai
Tel: (852) 3970 2171 / (852) 3970 2286
Fax: (852) 3102 0210
Email: hpi@wsfg.hk

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SOURCE Huaneng Power International, Inc.