据油价网2023年5月10日报道，非洲最大贷款银行的一位高管5月10日表示，在未来10年里，非洲将需要大约7000亿美元的融资，以扩大绿色能源开发和钴、铜和锂等关键能源转型金属的开采。
分析人士说，非洲如今仍有数亿人用不上电，可再生能源可能是解决方案的一部分。与此同时，非洲拥有极其丰富的矿床资源，例如刚果民主共和国的钴、赞比亚的铜、南非的铂和锰以及津巴布韦的锂。
总部位于南非的标准银行集团说，进一步开发这些资源的投资以及为更多的可再生能源发电提供资金将主要来自国际投资者和国际机构，因为非洲的银行将无法提供所有的贷款。
南非标准银行企业和投行业务部门首席执行官肯尼·菲赫拉对彭博新闻社记者表示：“制造太阳能电池板、锂电池、风力涡轮机等所需的许多矿床资源都在撒哈拉以南非洲地区。”
菲赫拉补充说：“我们的团队还量化了该领域所需的投资金额，大约需要数千亿美元的投资。”
南非标准银行的这位高管说，标准银行自己预计到2026年前将达到可再生能源贷款的“上限”——相当于130亿美元左右。
然而，标准银行为其在资助化石燃料项目中所扮演的角色进行了辩护。
标准银行表示，非洲的能源供应将继续推动其对化石燃料项目的支持。
菲赫拉最近在接受彭博新闻社记者采访时说：“非洲和许多非洲国家都不可能忽视电力供应短缺的问题。”
“今天的挑战不会在一夜之间得到解决，因此需要一种更加平衡的方法。”标准银行的这位高管补充道。
李峻 编译自 油价网
原文如下：
Africa Needs $700 Billion In Clean Energy Investment
Africa will need financing of around $700 billion in the next decade to expand green energy development and the mining of key energy transition metals such as cobalt, copper, and lithium, a top executive at Africa’s top lender by assets said.
Hundreds of millions of people in Africa do not have access to electricity, and renewables could be part of the solution, analysts say. At the same time, Africa has resources such as cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo, copper in Zambia, platinum and manganese in South Africa, and lithium deposits in Zimbabwe.
The investment in further development of these resources and funding for more renewable energy power generation will have to come mostly from international investors and institutions because Africa’s banks will not be able to provide all the lending, South Africa-based Standard Bank Group says.
“Many of the minerals that are required to build solar panels, lithium batteries, wind turbines and so on, are found in sub-Saharan Africa,” Kenny Fihla, chief executive officer of Standard Bank’s corporate and investment banking unit, told Bloomberg.
“Our team has also quantified the amount of investment that is required in that space as in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars,” Fihla added.
Standard Bank itself expects to reach the “upper end” of lending – the equivalent of around $13 billion – for renewable energy by 2026, the bank’s executive said.
Standard Bank, however, has defended its role in funding fossil fuel projects.
The bank says that access to energy in Africa will continue to drive its support for fossil fuel projects.
“It is not possible for Africa and many of the African countries to ignore the shortage of electricity supply,” Fihla said in a recent interview with Bloomberg.
“Today’s challenges are not going to be resolved overnight and therefore a much more balanced approach is required,” the executive added.
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