可再生能源增长或将使化石燃料处于转折点

中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社3月4日东京报道，2019年，美国、欧盟和印度用于发电的煤炭和石油等化石燃料的使用量下降，同时总发电量上升，这是全球能源结构的一个转折点。

这些国家和地区是全球四大化石燃料发电产地中的其中三个。向路透社提供发电量数据的瑞典查尔默斯理工大学能源教授托马斯·卡伯格表示，这种下降表明化石燃料时代的终结可能即将到来。

卡伯格还是日本可再生能源研究所执行董事会主席，瑞典公用事业公司Vattenfall AB的董事会成员，他提供的数据涵盖了全球超过70％的发电量，该数据显示了2019年大部分时间的发电量来自化石燃料的能源比上年下降了156太瓦时。这相当于2018年阿根廷的全部电力输出。

数据还显示，可再生能源发电的增长速度首次超过了总发电量的增长速度，从总发电量的233太瓦时增长到297太瓦时。

卡伯格表示:“低成本的可再生能源电力在与化石能源和核电站的竞争中胜出，推动了这一趋势。”

他表示，随着电动汽车使用量激增，可再生电力供应越来越多地为电池充电，化石燃料的衰落可能会加速。

卡伯格称:“新可再生能源发电的单位能源成本甚至比石油还低，甚至发电产生的燃料在运输、供暖和工业方面也将以越来越快的速度超过化石燃料。”

裘寅 编译自 路透社

原文如下：

Fossil fuels for power at turning point as renewables surged in 2019 - data

The use of fossil fuels such as coal and oil for generating electricity fell in 2019 in the United States, the European Union and India, at the same time overall power output rose, a turning point for the global energy mix.

Those countries and regions are three of the top four largest producers of power from fossil fuels. The declines suggest the end of the fossil fuel era could be on the horizon, said Tomas Kaberger, an energy professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, who provided the power generation data to Reuters.

Kaberger, who is also the chair of the executive board for Japan’s Renewable Energy Institute and a member of the board at Swedish utility Vattenfall AB, provided data covering more than 70% of the world’s power generation that showed for most of 2019 the amount of power sourced from fossil fuels dropped by 156 terawatt hours (TWh) from the year before. That is equal to the entire power output of Argentina in 2018.

The data also indicates that renewable power generation increased at a faster rate than the overall growth in power output for the first time, rising by 297 TWh versus 233 TWh for overall output, Kaberger said.

“It is economics driving this as low-cost renewable electricity outcompetes against fossil and nuclear power plants,” said Kaberger.

With electric vehicle usage surging and their batteries being increasingly recharged by renewable electricity supplies the decline of fossil fuels is likely to accelerate, he said.

“New renewables are even cheaper than oil per unit of energy electricity generated and even fuels produced from electricity will outcompete against fossil fuels at increasing speed in transport, heating and industry,” he said.