据美国油价网报道，北美可再生能源发电的价格在过去一年里飙升近30%，原因是开发成本快速上升，加上需求更加强劲。  

这是世界最大电力购买协议市场运营商和可再生能源交易基础设施主要供应商LevelTen能源公司4月13日发布的一份报告中所作出的结论。

报告作者称：“由于本季度开发环境极其艰难，北美可再生能源开发商正努力以足够快的速度建设太阳能和风能发电项目，以满足需求。”

他们解释说：“这将导致企业和其他大型能源买家缺少电力购买协议（PPA），而这对于让新的清洁能源项目上线、实现企业和联邦政府的净零目标至关重要。”

这些发展的组合导致了电力购买协议价格季度上涨9.7%，达到了近40美元/ 兆瓦时，年涨幅达到了28.5%。  

LevelTen能源公司开发商服务高级总监吉亚·克拉克在该报告的新闻稿中表示：“项目开发的每个方面都有需要评估和平衡的风险。”“现在，这些风险给人的感觉尤其高。 开发商必须将这些复杂性和不确定性纳入PPA的报价中，以确保项目的成功，以及企业的长期财务保障。 只要这些不利因素持续存在，我们就可以期待整个北美PPA价格的上涨。”

在最近的一次行业活动中，风力发电开发商抱怨说，在日益不利的商业环境中，他们不得不缩减业务。

通用电气公司负责陆上风力发电业务的首席执行官谢丽·希科克表示：“目前的供应链状况根本上是不健康的。因为我们面临的通胀市场甚至超出了所有人去年的预期。 钢铁价格上涨了3倍。 在这样一个不断增长的行业中，我们如何在这样的压力下维持供应链，这真的很可笑。”  

李峻 编译自 美国油价网

原文如下：

Renewable Energy Prices Soar 30%

The price of electricity generated by renewable power sources in North America has added almost 30 percent over the past year due to fast-rising development costs coupled with more robust demand.

This is the conclusion of a report by LevelTen Energy, the operator of the largest power purchase agreement marketplace in the world and a major provider of renewable energy transaction infrastructure.

“North American renewable energy developers are struggling to build solar and wind projects fast enough to keep up with demand because of the extremely difficult development landscape this quarter,” the authors of the report said.

“This is leading to a shortage of power purchase agreements for corporations and other large energy buyers, which are critical to bringing new clean energy projects online and meeting corporate and federal net zero targets,” they explained.

This combination of developments has led to a 9.7-percent quarterly increase in the prices of power purchase agreements to almost $40 per MWh, and a 28.5-percent annual increase.

“Every aspect of project development has risks to evaluate and balance,” Gia Clark, senior director of Developer Services at LevelTen Energy, said in the news release on the report.

“These days, these risks feel particularly high-stakes. Developers must factor these complexities and uncertainties into PPA offers to safeguard their project success, as well as their business’ long-term financial security. As long as these myriad headwinds persist, we can expect elevated PPA prices across North America.”

At a recent industry event, wind power developers complained that they are having to shrink their business amid an increasingly unfavorable business environment.

“The state of the supply chain is ultimately unhealthy right now,” said the chief executive of onshore wind at GE, Sheri Hickok. “It is unhealthy because we have an inflationary market that is beyond what anybody anticipated even last year. Steel is going up three times. It is really ridiculous to think how we can sustain a supply chain in a growing industry with these kind of pressures,” she added.