据油价网7月6日报道，英国政府周三向议会提交了能源安全法案，该法案并未明确确认英国承诺在2024年10月之前停止使用煤炭。
彭博社指出，该法案的目标是“提供更清洁、更实惠和更安全的能源系统”，但没有提及煤炭，而能源、商业和工业战略部的发言人也没有立即提及回应彭博社的评论。
英国去年表示，将把停止使用煤炭发电的目标提前1年至2024年10月，作为其领导世界应对气候变化目标的一部分。英国还试图在去年秋天在格拉斯哥举行的COP-26气候峰会上说服各国承诺尽快放弃煤炭。
由于风能在该国发电中获得了巨大的市场份额，英国在过去十年中削减了煤炭使用量。系统运营商国家电网ESO表示，周一，英国的电力没有煤炭来源。
然而，欧洲的天然气和能源危机以及英国的生活成本危机以及能源费用飙升可能促使政府没有再次明确承诺在两年内停止使用煤炭。
根据国家电网ESO的数据，周一天然气占发电量的最大份额为35.6%，超过风能的34.0%。
尽管英国北海生产大量天然气，但英国在冬季也依赖从挪威进口的天然气以及通过比利时和荷兰的互连线进口天然气。整个英国都将感受到当前欧洲大陆天然气和能源危机的恶化，那里的客户已经在努力应对生活成本的飙升和四十年来最高的通货膨胀。
据英国《金融时报》上周报道，英国还在考虑根据一项紧急计划切断通过两条连接欧洲大陆的天然气供应，该计划将在英国严重天然气短缺的情况下触发。
黎泱 编译自 油价网
原文如下：
Energy Crisis Could Force The UK To Keep Using Coal
The UK government introduced to Parliament on Wednesday the Energy Security Bill, a proposed legislation that does not explicitly confirm the UK’s pledge to end coal use by October 2024.
The bill, the goal of which is to “deliver a cleaner, more affordable, and more secure energy system,” doesn’t mention coal, Bloomberg notes, while a spokesperson for the Department of Energy, Business and Industrial Strategy didn’t immediately respond to Bloomberg for comment.
The UK said last year it would bring forward its target to end coal use in electricity generation by one year, to October 2024, as part of its aim to lead the world in tackling climate change. The UK also tried to persuade countries in the COP-26 climate summit in Glasgow last autumn to pledge to ditch coal as soon as possible.
The UK has slashed coal use in the past decade as wind power has gained a massive market share in the country’s electricity generation. On Monday, no power generated in Britain came from coal, system operator National Grid ESO said.
However, the gas and energy crisis in Europe and the cost-of-living crisis in the UK with soaring energy bills may have prompted the government to not explicitly pledge again an end to coal in two years’ time.
Natural gas held the largest share of power generation on Monday, at 35.6%, more than wind with 34.0%, according to National Grid ESO.
Although the UK North Sea produces a lot of gas, Britain also relies on imports from Norway and gas imports via interconnectors from Belgium and the Netherlands during the winter months. A worsening of the current gas and energy crisis in mainland Europe would be felt throughout the UK, where customers are already grappling with a surge in the cost of living and the highest inflation in forty years.
The UK is also considering cutting off gas supply via two interconnectors to mainland Europe under an emergency plan that would be triggered in case of severe gas shortages in Britain, the Financial Times reported last week.
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