???? 据油价网3月29日消息称，沃伦·巴菲特的投资公司伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司提出了一项加强德克萨斯州能源安全的计划:新增10吉瓦的天然气发电能力。

????彭博社报道说，该提案包括成立一家公司来建造这些电厂，并在提议中增加紧急天然气储存，以帮助防止今年1月底和2月初异常寒冷的天气导致的能源危机重演。

????伯克希尔哈撒韦能源基础设施集团首席执行官Chris Brown在一次采访中告诉彭博社：“我们真的希望这样的事情不会再发生。所以我们真的想和州政府合作。这个提议很简单:州居民应该有一个可靠的备用电源。”

????燃气发电厂的停运是孤星州能源危机的罪魁祸首之一。一些人完全归咎于该州的风力发电能力，风力发电能力也受到了严寒的影响。但最终，寒流对各种发电方式造成了严重破坏，导致天然气生产中断，无法提供紧急供应。

????然而，据《华尔街日报》本月早些时候报道，由于危机，该州的风能行业遭受了严重的打击。德克萨斯的严寒使该州的风力发电能力减少了一半。这意味着，这些风电场的运营商无法履行与投资者签订的为该项目融资的合同义务。

????这些合同基本上要求风电场运营商提供一定数量的电力。如果它不能自己发电，它需要在批发市场上购买，而在冻结期间，德州批发市场的价格达到了历史新高。

????伯克希尔押注天然气而非风能的事实或许能说明问题，因为联邦政府正在推动低碳能源发电。根据彭博社的报道，该计划将耗资83亿美元，由德州电力客户支付建设费用。伯克希尔提出的投资回报率为9.3%，目前正在等待德克萨斯州监管机构的批准。

????曹海斌 摘译自 油价网

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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.