2020年底起停止考虑向包括天然气基础设施在内的化石燃料项目提供新的贷款

据普氏能源资讯7月26日布鲁塞尔报道，欧洲投资银行(EIB)周五在其最新能源贷款战略草案中表示，计划从2020年底起停止考虑向包括天然气基础设施在内的化石燃料项目提供新的贷款。

它希望将重点放在能够帮助欧盟实现长期脱碳目标的投资上，例如可再生能源和天然气、氢等低碳气体、电网、电池存储和需求方响应。

对上游油气生产、石油、煤炭或天然气基础设施（包括液化天然气接收站和储气库）以及化石燃料发电或供热等项目的贷款，将在2020年底后不再提交银行董事会批准。

唯一的例外是符合银行所有标准的高效燃气发电厂和热电厂，包括250克二氧化碳/千瓦时的电力排放限值，以及包括在建筑改造项目中的高效燃气锅炉。

该银行表示，它“完全理解化石燃料在至少未来10年”的欧盟能源结构中“将继续发挥重要作用”，但它可以增加更多的价值，重点放在欧盟的长期投资需求上。

欧盟已承诺到2050年将碳排放在1990年的基础上削减至少80%，欧盟委员会新任主席乌尔苏拉?冯德莱恩已承诺，在明年的一项气候法律中，将这一目标提高到2050年的净零排放目标。

欧洲投资银行建议不向任何超过250克二氧化碳/千瓦时排放限值的电力项目提供贷款，并指出这可能会排除一些地热、大型水力或生物质发电厂。

自2013年最近一次更新其能源贷款战略以来，该行已实施了550克二氧化碳/千瓦时的排放限值，排除了所有未减排的燃煤和褐煤发电厂。

欧盟今年早些时候通过的欧盟电力市场设计新规则将电厂参与电力容量补偿机制的上限定为550克。

欧洲投资银行董事会将于9月10日讨论该战略草案。

更新后的能源贷款战略一经批准即生效。

裘寅 编译自 普氏能源资讯

原文如下：

EIB proposes no new loans to fossil fuel projects from end-2020

The European Investment Bank proposes to stop considering new loans to fossil fuel projects, including natural gas infrastructure, from the end of 2020, it said in its draft updated energy lending strategy Friday.

It wants to focus on investments that can help the EU meet its long-term decarbonization goals, such as renewable power and gas, low-carbon gases like hydrogen, power grids, battery storage and demand-side response.

Loans to projects involving upstream oil and gas production, oil, coal or natural gas infrastructure, including LNG terminals and storage, as well as power generation or heat based on fossil fuels would not be put forward for approval by the bank's board after the endof 2020.

The only exceptions would be high-efficiency gas-fired power and heat plants that meet all the bank's criteria, including an emissions limit of 250g CO2/kWh of electricity, and efficient gas boilers included in building renovation programs.

The bank said it "fully understands the role fossil fuels will continue to play" in the EU's energy mix for "at least the coming decade," but that it could add more value focusing on the EU's longer-term investment needs.

The EU has committed to cutting its CO2 emissions by at least 80% from 1990 levels by 2050, and European Commission president-elect Ursula von der Leyen has promised to propose raising this to a 2050 net-zero carbon target in a climate law next year.

The bank proposes not lending to any power project that exceeds the 250g CO2/kWh emissions limit, noting that this could exclude some geothermal, large-scale hydro or biomass power plants.

The bank has applied a 550g CO2/kWh emissions limit, which ruled out all unabated coal and lignite-fired power plants, since 2013, when it last updated its energy lending strategy.

The EU included the 550g limit for power plants taking part in capacity remuneration mechanisms in its new EU power market design rules adopted earlier this year.

The bank's board of directors is to discuss the draft strategy on September 10.

The updated energy lending strategy applies as soon as it is approved.