中东正推动可再生能源发电的投资

中国石化新闻网讯 据今日油价2月26日报道，石油丰富的中东正推动国内外对可再生能源发电的投资。

就在几年前，这个想法还引起了一些注意。 但是，如今，在一个漫长的能源转型之旅和一个低油价的中东世界中，波斯湾公司在该地区和世界各地对太阳能和风能的增加投资是完全合理的。

欧佩克一些主要生产商的最大电力公司扩大了他们的国际足迹，旨在占领蓬勃发展的全球可再生发电市场的一部分。在国内，电力公司投资以增加中东清洁能源的发电量，释放额外的原油桶（例如，在欧佩克主要生产国沙特阿拉伯为电力而燃烧的原油），用于出口和增加政府收入。

沙特阿拉伯和阿拉伯联合酋长国（UAE）这两个最大和最具影响力的欧佩克成员国，已经制定了长期的国家可再生能源计划，以减少发电对原油的依赖。两国最大的电力公司也越来越多地将目光投向国外，以在最有前途的替代能源市场上扩大可再生能源发电业务。

阿联酋有一项到2050年的能源战略，该战略要求其44％的电力来自清洁能源，38％来自天然气，12％来自清洁煤和6％来自核能。该战略旨在到2050年将清洁能源在能源结构中的份额从25％提高到50％，将发电的碳足迹减少70％，并在2050年之前为该国节省1,906亿美元（7,000亿阿联酋迪拉姆）。

郝芬 译自 今日油价

原文如下：

The Real Reason The Middle East Is Pivoting Towards Renewables

The oil-rich Middle East is boosting investments in renewable energy generation at home and abroad.

Just a few years ago, this notion would have raised a few eyebrows. But these days, Persian Gulf companies’ increased investments in solar and wind power in the region and around the world make perfect sense in a world that begins its long energy transition journey and a Middle East suffering from low oil prices.

The largest power firms in some of OPEC’s leading producers expand their international footprint, aiming to capture part of the booming global renewable generation market. At home, power companies invest in boosting electricity generation from clean sources in the Middle East, freeing additional barrels of crude oil—which is burnt for electricity in OPEC’s top producer Saudi Arabia, for example—for exports and for additional government revenues.

Two of the largest and most influential OPEC members, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), already have long-term national renewable plans to cut reliance on crude for electricity generation. The biggest power companies in the two countries are also increasingly looking abroad to expand their renewable power operations in the most promising alternative energy markets.

The UAE has an energy strategy through 2050, which calls for generating 44 percent of its electricity from clean energy, 38 percent from natural gas, 12 percent from clean coal, and 6 percent from nuclear power. The strategy aims to boost the share of clean energy in the energy mix from 25 percent to 50 percent by 2050, reduce carbon footprint of power generation by 70 percent, and save the country US$190.6 billion (700 billion UAE dirhams) by 2050.