能源轉(zhuǎn)型面臨壓力

據(jù)能源之聲網(wǎng)站5月11日報道 能源世界被許多矛盾撕裂，這些矛盾使得氣候變化推動的向低碳世界的過渡變得困難。

由于疫情抑制了能源需求，加上油價戰(zhàn)如此惡性，美國生產(chǎn)商一度花重金處理庫存，形勢變得更加復雜。

4月20日，5月份交割的WTI基準美國原油價格暴跌至-40美元。同一天，也有報道稱，超過10萬個清潔能源工作崗位在美國蒸發(fā)。

在危機發(fā)生之前，威脅破壞能源轉(zhuǎn)型的復雜性包括：

?為所有人提供能源的承諾，以及將近10億人仍然無法獲得電力的事實。

?最新證據(jù)顯示，全球溫室氣體排放量需要進一步快速削減，數(shù)據(jù)顯示，2018年與能源相關(guān)的排放量創(chuàng)下歷史新高。

?對快速、可再生能源驅(qū)動的能源轉(zhuǎn)型的期望，以及當今能源系統(tǒng)對礦物燃料的依賴仍然居高不下的現(xiàn)實。

?供應(yīng)充足的石油市場本應(yīng)平靜，對地緣政治緊張局勢和不確定因素仍揮之不去的不安。

王磊 摘譯自 能源之聲

原文如下：

Big Oil and the energy transition

The energy world is riven by many contradictions that are making the climate change-driven transition to a low-carbon world difficult.

The situation has become more complex due to the Covid-19 pandemic depressing energy demand and an oil price war so vicious that, at one point, US producers were paying traders to cart surplus production away.

On April 20, WTI benchmark US crude for May delivery plummeted to minus $40. That same day, it was also reported that more than 100,000 clean energy jobs had evaporated in the US.

Prior to the crisis, complexities threatening to undermine the energy transition included the gaps between:

? The promise of energy for all and the fact that almost one billion people still do not have access to electricity.

? The latest evidence highlighting the need for ever more rapid cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions and the data showing that energy-related emissions hit another historic high in 2018.

? The expectations of fast, renewables-driven energy transitions and the reality of today’s energy systems in which reliance on fossil fuels remains stubbornly high.

? The supposed calm in well-supplied oil markets and the lingering unease over geopolitical tensions and uncertainties.