???? 據油價網3月29日消息稱，沃倫·巴菲特的投資公司伯克希爾·哈撒韋公司提出了一項加強德克薩斯州能源安全的計劃:新增10吉瓦的天然氣發電能力。

????彭博社報道說，該提案包括成立一家公司來建造這些電廠，并在提議中增加緊急天然氣儲存，以幫助防止今年1月底和2月初異常寒冷的天氣導致的能源危機重演。

????伯克希爾哈撒韋能源基礎設施集團首席執行官Chris Brown在一次采訪中告訴彭博社：“我們真的希望這樣的事情不會再發生。所以我們真的想和州政府合作。這個提議很簡單:州居民應該有一個可靠的備用電源。”

????燃氣發電廠的停運是孤星州能源危機的罪魁禍首之一。一些人完全歸咎于該州的風力發電能力，風力發電能力也受到了嚴寒的影響。但最終，寒流對各種發電方式造成了嚴重破壞，導致天然氣生產中斷，無法提供緊急供應。

????然而，據《華爾街日報》本月早些時候報道，由于危機，該州的風能行業遭受了嚴重的打擊。德克薩斯的嚴寒使該州的風力發電能力減少了一半。這意味著，這些風電場的運營商無法履行與投資者簽訂的為該項目融資的合同義務。

????這些合同基本上要求風電場運營商提供一定數量的電力。如果它不能自己發電，它需要在批發市場上購買，而在凍結期間，德州批發市場的價格達到了歷史新高。

????伯克希爾押注天然氣而非風能的事實或許能說明問題，因為聯邦政府正在推動低碳能源發電。根據彭博社的報道，該計劃將耗資83億美元，由德州電力客戶支付建設費用。伯克希爾提出的投資回報率為9.3%，目前正在等待德克薩斯州監管機構的批準。

????曹海斌 摘譯自 油價網

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????Buffett Proposes 10 GW In New Gas Plants For Texas

????Warren Buffett's investment company Berkshire Hathaway has proposed a plan for boosting Texas' energy security: building 10 GW in new natural gas-fired generation capacity.

????Bloomberg reports that the proposal involves setting up a company that would build the plants and add emergency gas storage to the offer in a bid to help prevent a repeat of this year's energy crisis caused by the unusually cold weather in late January and early February.

????"We really want to make sure that this never happens again. So we're really wanting to partner with the state," Chris Brown, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Energy Infrastructure Group, told Bloomberg in an interview. "The proposal is simple: state residents should have a reliable source of backup power."

????Outages in gas-fired power plants were among the culprits for the energy crisis in the Lone Star state. Some blamed exclusively the state's wind generation capacity, which was also affected by the Freeze. But, ultimately, the cold spell wreaked havoc across all kinds of power generation and caused outages in natural gas production, making emergency supplies impossible.

????As a result of the crisis, however, the wind industry in the state has suffered a severe blow, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month. The Texas Freeze took out half of the state's wind capacity. This meant that the operators of these wind farms could not fulfill their obligations under contracts they had struck with investors to get financing for the project.

????The contracts basically oblige the wind farm operator to supply a certain amount of electricity. If it fails to generate this electricity itself, it needs to buy it on the wholesale market, and prices on the Texas wholesale market reached historic highs amid the Freeze.

????The fact that Berkshire is betting on gas and not wind may be telling, as it comes amid a federal push for lower-carbon energy generation. According to the Bloomberg report, the plan would cost some $8.3 billion, with Texas power customers paying a fee to pay for the construction. Berkshire has proposed a 9.3% rate of return on its investment that is pending Texas regulators' approval.