澳大利亚计划在低排放技术领域投资130亿美元

据今日油价网站9月22日消息 澳大利亚能源和减排部部长安格斯·泰勒周二表示，作为全球最大的煤炭出口国，澳大利亚计划在2030年前投资130亿美元（180亿澳元）于低排放技术，以实现更低的排放量、更低的成本和更多的就业机会。

据政府估计，预计投资将在未来十年内推动至少360亿美元（500亿澳元）的新投资。

澳大利亚将致力于建立一个区域性的氢出口中心，支持碳捕获和储存（CCS）技术，发展能源储存，并致力于降低低排放钢铁和铝的生产成本。

然而，与其他工业化国家的政府不同，澳大利亚没有制定任何净零排放目标。

泰勒在政府的第一份低排放技术声明中表示：“到2030年，正确利用未来的技术将支持13万个就业岗位，并在2040年之前避免约2.5亿吨的排放量。”

泰勒表示，如果这些技术在全球得到广泛应用，它们将大大减少能源、交通、农业和重工业的排放。这些行业占全球排放量的90%，每年排放约450亿吨。

数据和分析公司GlobalData上月表示，尽管面临冠状病毒危机等短期挑战，但从长期来看，澳大利亚将成为全球能源转型的领导者，实现向可再生能源在其能源结构中占绝大多数的最快过渡。

GlobalData表示，澳大利亚有一系列太阳能和风力发电项目，将给投资者带来市场信心。

根据澳大利亚能源市场运营商（AEMO）对澳大利亚发电量的20年蓝图，到2034年至2035年，可再生能源发电量将可提供85%的发电量。到2040年，可再生能源将占发电量的94.2%。

王磊 摘译自 今日油价

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Australia Plans US$13B Investment In Low-Emission Tech

Australia, the world’s top coal exporter, plans to invest over US$13 billion (18 billion Australian dollars) in low emission technologies through 2030, as it aims to deliver lower emissions, lower costs, and more jobs, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Angus Taylor, said on Tuesday.

The expected investment is set to drive at least US$36 billion (AUS$50 billion) of new investment over the next decade, according to government estimates.

Australia will be working to have a regional hydrogen export hub, support carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, develop energy storage, and work on cutting the costs of low-emissions steel and aluminum production.

Yet, unlike some other governments of industrialized nations, Australia is not setting any net-zero emission targets.

“Getting the technologies of the future right will support 130,000 jobs by 2030, and avoid in the order of 250 million tonnes of emissions in Australia by 2040,” Minister Taylor said in the Government’s first Low Emissions Technology Statement.

“If these technologies achieve widespread deployment globally, they will significantly reduce emissions from energy, transport, agriculture and heavy industry. These sectors account for 90 per cent of global emissions and emit 45 billion tonnes each year,” Taylor said.

Despite short-term challenges such as the coronavirus-crisis, Australia is set to become the world’s leader in the energy transition in the long term, achieving the fastest transition to an overwhelming share of renewable sources in its energy mix, data and analytics company GlobalData said last month.

Australia has a strong pipeline of solar and wind power projects set to bring investor confidence in the market, GlobalData said.

Under the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) 20-year blueprint for Australia’s power generation, by 2034-35, renewable generation may, at times, deliver 85 percent of generation. By 2040, in the step-change scenario, variable renewable energy could account for up to 94.2 percent of electricity generation.