沙特签署了7个太阳能项目的电力购买协议

据能源世界网4月9日伦敦报道，周四沙特官方通讯社SPA援引王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼(Mohammed bin Salman)的话表示，沙特阿拉伯已经与7个新的太阳能项目签署了电力购买协议，将为60多万户家庭提供电力。

他补充道，新项目，加上新的Sakaka太阳能和Dumat al-Jandal风能项目，将拥有超过3600兆瓦的电量。

周四，沙特首个可再生能源项目Sakaka启动。该项目由沙特阿拉伯主权财富基金共同拥有的Acwa Power公司开发，其装机容量为300兆瓦。

王储表示，这些项目，以及其他正在整个王国开发的可再生能源项目，构成了我们寻求优化用于发电的能源结构的计划的基本要素。计划到2030年，该国一半电力用天然气发电，一半用可再生能源发电。他补充道，这将取代大约100万桶石油当量的液体燃料。

据SPA称，这些新项目将被视为独立发电商，沙特电力采购公司将根据20-25年的协议购买他们生产的电力。

王储称，其中一些项目创造了太阳能发电最低成本的世界纪录。

郝芬 译自 能源世界网

原文如下：

Saudi Arabia signs agreements for seven new solar projects -SPA

Saudi Arabia has signed power purchase agreements with seven new solar projects that will provide electricity more than 600,000 households, state news agency SPA quoted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as saying on Thursday.

The new projects, in addition to the new Sakaka solar and the Dumat al-Jandal wind projects, will have a more than 3,600 megawatt capacity, he added.

Sakaka, Saudi Arabia's first renewables project, was launched on Thursday. The scheme developed by Acwa Power, a company co-owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, has a 300 MW capacity.

"These projects, along with other renewable energy projects, which are being developed across the Kingdom, constitute essential elements of our plans that seek to optimise the energy mix used to produce electricity," the Crown Prince said.

The plan was to produce half the kingdom's electricity with gas and half with renewables by 2030, the Crown Prince said. That this would displace about 1 million barrels of oil equivalent of liquid fuels, he added.

The new projects will be considered independent power producers, the SPA said, with the Saudi Power Procurement Company buying the power they produce under 20-25 year agreements.

Some of these projects have set new world records for the lowest cost of solar-produced electricity, the Crown Prince said.