据道琼斯6月18日消息,亚洲开发银行(ADB)称,为满足快速增长的需求,2020年前亚洲需要在电力基础设施方面投资4万亿美元,但是将再生能源加入到现有能源结构中所带来的能否支付得起的挑战正明显减轻。本周在马尼拉召开的ADB亚洲清洁能源论坛上,世界能源理事会秘书长Christopher Frei表示:“煤炭正由低价走向一个不确定的未来,因为各国政府开始将污染和环境破坏计入火力发电厂的成本。”他还表示,虽然大家过去认为煤炭比较廉价而再生能源比较昂贵,但研究表明,现在这种局面已经不复存在。他预计在条件允许的情况下,亚洲国家将越来越多地依靠再生能源提高产能。
唐绍红摘译自道琼斯
原文如下:
Renewable Energy as Cheap or Cheaper Than Coal, ADB Says
[Dow Jones] Asia needs to spend $4 trillion on its electricity infrastructure by 2020, according to the Asian Development Bank, in order to meet fast-rising demand, but the challenge of affordably adding renewable energy to the mix is apparently easing. "We're moving from cheap coal to uncertain coal," said Christopher Frei, secretary general of the World Energy Council at Asia Clean Energy Forum held by the ADB in Manila this week, as governments start to factor pollution and environmental damage into the cost of using coal-fired plants to generate electricity. "The impression used to be that coal is cheap and renewables are expensive," Frei said, "but our studies tell us we've moved away from that." he forecasting that Asian countries would increasingly turn to renewable sources of energy to boost capacity wherever possible.