据今日油价2月5日报道，法国石油天然气超级巨头道达尔正在德克萨斯州购买4个大型太阳能发电项目加上电池储能资产，计划用这些项目满足其在美国所有工业用地的电力需求。
道达尔一直在扩大其可再生能源投资组合，并在最近几个月签署了大量绿色能源购电协议（PPA），目前正从SunChase power和私人能源投资公司MAP RE/ES手中购买四个太阳能项目，总发电量为2.2吉瓦加上600兆瓦的电池储能资产。道达尔表示，所有项目都位于休斯顿附近电力需求旺盛的工业区，每个项目都有电池储能系统（BESS），预计将在2023年至2024年期间上线。
这家石油巨头将承诺从太阳能和储能投资组合中获得1吉瓦的企业购电协议，以覆盖其在美国运营的工业基地的所有电力消耗，包括亚瑟港、拉波特和卡维尔。
道达尔董事长兼首席执行官Patrick Pouyanné在一份声明中表示:“通过此次收购，道达尔目前正在美国发展近4吉瓦的可再生能源发电能力，从而有助于我们在2025年达到近35吉瓦的可再生能源发电能力目标。”
截至2020年底，道达尔在全球的总发电能力约为12吉瓦，其中包括近7吉瓦的可再生能源。
彭博社研究显示，道达尔是2020年全球第二大清洁能源买家，仅次于亚马逊，签署了3吉瓦的购电协议。
据彭博社数据显示，自去年石油巨头开始宣布净零目标，并承诺大幅增加对可再生能源的投资以来，道达尔收购了欧洲最大的可再生能源投资组合。自2020年9月宣布新战略和净零目标以来，道达尔已购买了多达8.8 吉瓦的可再生能源发电产能，包括在运营、建设或开发阶段的项目。
王佳晶 摘译自 今日油价
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Oil Major Total Buys Texas Solar Projects
France’s oil and gas supermajor Total is buying four large-scale solar power projects plus battery storage assets in Texas, with which it plans to meet the electricity demand of all its industrial sites in the United States, including the Port Arthur refining and petrochemicals platform and La Porte and Carville petrochemical sites.
The French oil major, which has been boosting its renewable electricity portfolio and has been signing lots of power purchase agreements (PPAs) for green energy in recent months, is buying the four solar projects of a total of 2.2 gigawatts (GW) plus 600 MW of battery storage assets from SunChase Power and private energy investment firm MAP RE/ES. All projects, each with co-located battery energy storage systems (BESS), are in industrial areas near Houston with high electricity demand and are expected to come online between 2023 and 2024, Total said on Friday.
The oil major will commit to a 1-GW corporate PPA sourced from this solar power and energy storage portfolio to cover all the electricity consumption of its operated industrial sites in the U.S., including those in Port Arthur, La Porte, and Carville.
“With this latest acquisition, Total is now developing close to 4 GW of renewable power capacity in the U.S., thus contributing to our objective to reach close to 35 GW of renewable generation capacity by 2025,” Total’s chairman and chief executive Patrick Pouyanné said in a statement.
At the end of 2020, Total’s gross power generation capacity worldwide was around 12 GW, including nearly 7 GW of renewable energy.
Total was the second-largest corporate buyer of clean energy globally in 2020, after Amazon, research by BloombergNEF (BNEF) showed last month. The French oil and gas major Total signed 3 GW of PPAs last year.
Total has acquired the largest renewable energy portfolio among European oil supermajors since Big Oil started announcing last year net-zero targets and pledging significantly increased investments in renewables, according to Bloomberg data. Since announcing its new strategy and net-zero goals in September 2020, Total has bought as much as 8.8 GW of renewable electricity capacity, either operational or in construction or development phases.
