日本最大电企宣布2030年前关闭所有低效火电厂

据路透社10月13日报道，日本最大的发电企业JERA于当日表示，将在2030年前关闭日本所有低效燃煤电厂，并努力在2050年前实现二氧化碳净零排放，以应对气候变化。

Japan’s biggest power generator JERA said on Tuesday it will shut down all inefficient coal-fired power plants in Japan by 2030 and it aims to achieve net zero emissions of carbon dioxide by 2050 to tackle climate change.

 

关闭低效煤电站符合政府政策，但这是电力公司首次宣布有意配合该政策。

Closing inefficient coal power stations is in line with government policy but this was the first time a power company declared an intention to match that policy.

 

一个政府小组正在考虑如何定义低效燃煤电厂，但JERA表示暂时将"超临界或更少"技术的电厂视为低效电厂。

A government panel is deliberating on how to define an inefficient coal-fired plant but JERA said, provisionally, it saw inefficient plants as ones that use “supercritical or less” technology.

 

在全球企业加速行动以帮助创造脱碳社会之际，JERA作为东京电力和中部电力的火力发电和燃料业务的合资企业，制定了雄心勃勃的2050年目标。

JERA, a thermal power and fuel joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings and Chubu Electric Power, set the ambitious 2050 target as companies worldwide are accelerating action to help create a decarbonised society.

 

"作为一家在全球开展业务的公司，一家发电量约占国内电力三分之一的公用事业公司，设定这些目标是保持作为能源公司的基本资格，也是在全球市场开展业务的入场券，"JERA的管理执行官Hisahide Okuda在新闻发布会上说。

“As a company operating globally and as a utility generating about one-third of domestic electricity, setting these goals is an essential qualification for remaining to be an energy company and an entry ticket for doing business in the global market,” Hisahide Okuda, managing executive officer at JERA, told a news conference.

 

JERA以行业竞争为由，拒绝透露到2030年将关闭的煤电厂的数量。

The company declined to say how many coal power plants will be closed by 2030, citing competitive reasons.

 

为了实现2050年的目标，JERA计划推动以海上风力发电场为中心的可再生能源，同时在火力发电厂使用氨和氢气等绿色燃料。

To achieve the 2050 target, JERA aims to boost renewable energy centered on offshore wind-power farms while using greener fuels such as ammonia and hydrogen at its thermal plants.

 

JERA计划到2030年在其位于日本中部的碧南火力发电站启动一个试点项目，将氨作为燃料与煤混合燃烧，并希望到2035年实现其燃煤电厂达到20%的氨使用量的目标。

It plans to start a pilot programme to use ammonia as a fuel with coal in mixed combustion at its Hekinan thermal power station in central Japan by 2030 and hopes to achieve 20% use of ammonia at its coal-fired power plants by 2035.

 

JERA补充说，其他措施还包括提高燃气电厂的效率以及在燃气电厂混合燃烧氢气。

Other measures include improving an efficiency of gas-fired power plants and burning hydrogen in mixed combustion at gas-fired power stations, it added.

 

JERA拒绝透露计划从哪里进口氨和氢气。

JERA declined to say from where it plans to import ammonia and hydrogen.

 

JERA的目标是到2030年将火力发电厂的碳排放强度比政府目前在全国范围内的减排目标低20%。

By 2030, JERA aims to cut 20% more carbon emission intensity of thermal power plants than the government’s current reduction target for those plants across the nation.

 

根据JERA的数据，使用化石燃料的火力发电满足了日本约80%的电力需求，占其二氧化碳总排放量的40%左右。

Thermal power generation using fossil fuels meets about 80% of Japan’s electricity demand and accounts for about 40% of its total CO2 emissions, according to JERA.