IRENA報告：太陽能成本大幅下降 全球50%以上燃煤電廠或被削減

據衛報6月2日報道，一份關于全球可再生能源的報告顯示，新建太陽能項目產生的電力，要比目前全球大多數燃煤電廠發的電更便宜。

Building new solar power projects would generate cheaper electricity than running most of the world’s existing coal power plants, according to a global renewable energy report.

 

新數據表明，全球一半以上的燃煤電廠會被削減，因為新的大規模太陽能項目的成本下降——目前這些項目的建設成本比2010年便宜80％以上。

New figures have revealed that more than half of the world’s coal plants could be undercut by the falling cost of new large-scale solar projects, which are now more than 80% cheaper to build than in 2010.

 

國際可再生能源機構（IRENA）發現，全球現有1200吉瓦的煤炭產能的運營成本可能要比新建公用事業規模的太陽能發電廠更高。

The International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) has found that up to 1,200 gigawatts of the world’s existing coal capacity could cost more to run than the cost of new utility-scale solar plants.

 

根據IRENA的發現，如果能源公司用新的太陽能發電項目或陸上風電場僅替換其最昂貴的燃煤電廠——全球總計500吉瓦，每年就可以節省多達230億美元（180億英鎊），并比上一年減少5%的全球碳排放總量。

If energy companies replaced only their most expensive coal plants with new solar power projects or onshore wind farms, totalling 500 GW globally, they could save up to $23bn (£18bn) every year and wipe out 5% of last year’s total global carbon emissions, according to Irena.

 

隨著世界經濟從冠狀病毒危機中復蘇，全球可再生能源的繁榮還將刺激9400億美元的投資，相當于全球GDP的1％。

This global renewable energy boom would also stimulate $940bn in investment, or the equivalent of 1% of global GDP, as the world emerges from the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis.