???? 據(jù)油價(jià)網(wǎng)3月29日消息稱，沃倫·巴菲特的投資公司伯克希爾·哈撒韋公司提出了一項(xiàng)加強(qiáng)德克薩斯州能源安全的計(jì)劃:新增10吉瓦的天然氣發(fā)電能力。

????彭博社報(bào)道說(shuō)，該提案包括成立一家公司來(lái)建造這些電廠，并在提議中增加緊急天然氣儲(chǔ)存，以幫助防止今年1月底和2月初異常寒冷的天氣導(dǎo)致的能源危機(jī)重演。

????伯克希爾哈撒韋能源基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施集團(tuán)首席執(zhí)行官Chris Brown在一次采訪中告訴彭博社：“我們真的希望這樣的事情不會(huì)再發(fā)生。所以我們真的想和州政府合作。這個(gè)提議很簡(jiǎn)單:州居民應(yīng)該有一個(gè)可靠的備用電源。”

????燃?xì)獍l(fā)電廠的停運(yùn)是孤星州能源危機(jī)的罪魁禍?zhǔn)字?。一些人完全歸咎于該州的風(fēng)力發(fā)電能力，風(fēng)力發(fā)電能力也受到了嚴(yán)寒的影響。但最終，寒流對(duì)各種發(fā)電方式造成了嚴(yán)重破壞，導(dǎo)致天然氣生產(chǎn)中斷，無(wú)法提供緊急供應(yīng)。

????然而，據(jù)《華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)》本月早些時(shí)候報(bào)道，由于危機(jī)，該州的風(fēng)能行業(yè)遭受了嚴(yán)重的打擊。德克薩斯的嚴(yán)寒使該州的風(fēng)力發(fā)電能力減少了一半。這意味著，這些風(fēng)電場(chǎng)的運(yùn)營(yíng)商無(wú)法履行與投資者簽訂的為該項(xiàng)目融資的合同義務(wù)。

????這些合同基本上要求風(fēng)電場(chǎng)運(yùn)營(yíng)商提供一定數(shù)量的電力。如果它不能自己發(fā)電，它需要在批發(fā)市場(chǎng)上購(gòu)買，而在凍結(jié)期間，德州批發(fā)市場(chǎng)的價(jià)格達(dá)到了歷史新高。

????伯克希爾押注天然氣而非風(fēng)能的事實(shí)或許能說(shuō)明問(wèn)題，因?yàn)槁?lián)邦政府正在推動(dòng)低碳能源發(fā)電。根據(jù)彭博社的報(bào)道，該計(jì)劃將耗資83億美元，由德州電力客戶支付建設(shè)費(fèi)用。伯克希爾提出的投資回報(bào)率為9.3%，目前正在等待德克薩斯州監(jiān)管機(jī)構(gòu)的批準(zhǔn)。

????曹海斌 摘譯自 油價(jià)網(wǎng)

????原文如下：

????Buffett Proposes 10 GW In New Gas Plants For Texas

????Warren Buffett's investment company Berkshire Hathaway has proposed a plan for boosting Texas' energy security: building 10 GW in new natural gas-fired generation capacity.

????Bloomberg reports that the proposal involves setting up a company that would build the plants and add emergency gas storage to the offer in a bid to help prevent a repeat of this year's energy crisis caused by the unusually cold weather in late January and early February.

????"We really want to make sure that this never happens again. So we're really wanting to partner with the state," Chris Brown, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Energy Infrastructure Group, told Bloomberg in an interview. "The proposal is simple: state residents should have a reliable source of backup power."

????Outages in gas-fired power plants were among the culprits for the energy crisis in the Lone Star state. Some blamed exclusively the state's wind generation capacity, which was also affected by the Freeze. But, ultimately, the cold spell wreaked havoc across all kinds of power generation and caused outages in natural gas production, making emergency supplies impossible.

????As a result of the crisis, however, the wind industry in the state has suffered a severe blow, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month. The Texas Freeze took out half of the state's wind capacity. This meant that the operators of these wind farms could not fulfill their obligations under contracts they had struck with investors to get financing for the project.

????The contracts basically oblige the wind farm operator to supply a certain amount of electricity. If it fails to generate this electricity itself, it needs to buy it on the wholesale market, and prices on the Texas wholesale market reached historic highs amid the Freeze.

????The fact that Berkshire is betting on gas and not wind may be telling, as it comes amid a federal push for lower-carbon energy generation. According to the Bloomberg report, the plan would cost some $8.3 billion, with Texas power customers paying a fee to pay for the construction. Berkshire has proposed a 9.3% rate of return on its investment that is pending Texas regulators' approval.

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