欧盟可利用新成立的天然气买家组织卡特尔购买氢气

据油价网7月6日报道，彭博社报道，欧盟可以利用其新成立的天然气买家组织卡特尔购买大量的氢气和其他关键材料。欧盟设定了一个目标，即整合足够的需求，填满其在欧盟境内相当于约135亿立方米天然气储存设施；目前欧盟其天然气储备已经超出预期，接近80%的储备已满。

欧盟委员会副主席告诉彭博社，“我们必须在关键原材料上进行更多投资，以获取我们所需的战略供应，我们需要多样化供应商”。

受到近年来最严重的能源危机之一的冲击，欧盟于2022年成立了一个天然气买家组织卡特尔，并开始发布供应招标。据称，欧盟内约有50家天然气供应商和大型工业气体消费者立即表示有兴趣参与该联合购买行动。整个努力的一个关键目标是通过大规模购买来降低天然气价格。

尽管天然气价格比一年前低得多，但欧盟仍需要购买大量天然气来重新填充储备，这可能会推高价格。他表示，欧盟及其四个邻国未来三年将需要240亿立方米的天然气来满足需求。此外，与全球两大经济体相比，欧洲一直在为天然气支付相当高的溢价，如果该地区要在全球舞台上保持竞争力，这种情况需要改变。“越来越重要的是，我们必须处理价格问题。与上述两位相比，我们无法以如此巨大的价格差来支持我们的经济。”谢夫乔维奇告诉彭博社。

三年前，欧盟制定了其新的氢气战略，作为实现其所有行业在2050年实现碳中和的目标的一部分。对于氢气行业来说，这是一个巨大的胜利，欧盟计划在2030年之前在其境内建设至少40吉瓦的电解装置，相当于当前全球容量250兆瓦的160倍。欧盟还计划支持邻近国家发展另外40吉瓦的绿色氢气，这些国家可以向该地区出口。

天然气买家联盟的成功为欧盟在购买氢气和其他能源转型所需材料方面提供了一个蓝图。

胡耀东 译自 油价网

原文如下：

EU Could Use Newly Launched Gas Cartel To Purchase Hydrogen

The European Union could use its newly launched gas cartel to purchase vast quantities of hydrogen and other critical materials, Bloomberg has reported. The bloc had set a goal of aggregating enough demand to fill 15% of its gas storage sites across the bloc, equivalent to around 13.5 billion cubic meters, and has managed to exceed expectations with its gas stores nearly 80% full.

“We have to invest much more in critical raw materials to have the strategic supplies we need. We need to diversify the suppliers,” Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic has told Bloomberg.

Rocked by one of the worst energy crises in living memory, the European Union launched a gas buyers’ cartel in 2022 and started issuing tenders for supplies. According to Sefcovic, some 50 gas suppliers and large industrial gas consumers in the EU immediately expressed interest in being part of the bloc’s joint gas buying effort. A key objective of the whole endeavor is to keep gas prices low by buying in larger volumes.

Although natural gas prices are a lot lower than they were a year ago, the EU still needs to buy vast quantities of gas to refill its storage, with such a move likely to drive prices higher. Sefcovic said that the EU plus four neighboring countries will require 24 billion cubic meters of natural gas over the next three years to meet their needs. Further, Europe has been paying a considerable premium for its gas compared to the global top two economics , and this needs to change if the region is to remain competitive on the global stage, “What is increasingly important is that we have to deal with prices. We can’t power our economy at such a huge price differential compared with the above-mentioned economics ,” Sefcovic told Bloomberg.

Three years ago, the European Union set out its new hydrogen strategy as part of its goal to achieve carbon neutrality for all its industries by 2050. In a big win for the hydrogen sector, the EU has outlined an extremely ambitious target to build out at least 40 gigawatts of electrolyzers within its borders by 2030, or 160x the current global capacity of 250MW. The EU also plans to support the development of another 40 gigawatts of green hydrogen in nearby countries that can export to the region by the same date.

The success of the gas club provides a blueprint for the EU to use to purchase hydrogen and other materials it needs for the energy transition.