據(jù)油價(jià)網(wǎng)2023年5月10日報(bào)道，非洲最大貸款銀行的一位高管5月10日表示，在未來10年里，非洲將需要大約7000億美元的融資，以擴(kuò)大綠色能源開發(fā)和鈷、銅和鋰等關(guān)鍵能源轉(zhuǎn)型金屬的開采。

分析人士說，非洲如今仍有數(shù)億人用不上電，可再生能源可能是解決方案的一部分。與此同時(shí)，非洲擁有極其豐富的礦床資源，例如剛果民主共和國的鈷、贊比亞的銅、南非的鉑和錳以及津巴布韋的鋰。

總部位于南非的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)銀行集團(tuán)說，進(jìn)一步開發(fā)這些資源的投資以及為更多的可再生能源發(fā)電提供資金將主要來自國際投資者和國際機(jī)構(gòu)，因?yàn)榉侵薜你y行將無法提供所有的貸款。

南非標(biāo)準(zhǔn)銀行企業(yè)和投行業(yè)務(wù)部門首席執(zhí)行官肯尼·菲赫拉對彭博新聞社記者表示：“制造太陽能電池板、鋰電池、風(fēng)力渦輪機(jī)等所需的許多礦床資源都在撒哈拉以南非洲地區(qū)。”

菲赫拉補(bǔ)充說：“我們的團(tuán)隊(duì)還量化了該領(lǐng)域所需的投資金額，大約需要數(shù)千億美元的投資。”

南非標(biāo)準(zhǔn)銀行的這位高管說，標(biāo)準(zhǔn)銀行自己預(yù)計(jì)到2026年前將達(dá)到可再生能源貸款的“上限”——相當(dāng)于130億美元左右。

然而，標(biāo)準(zhǔn)銀行為其在資助化石燃料項(xiàng)目中所扮演的角色進(jìn)行了辯護(hù)。

標(biāo)準(zhǔn)銀行表示，非洲的能源供應(yīng)將繼續(xù)推動(dòng)其對化石燃料項(xiàng)目的支持。

菲赫拉最近在接受彭博新聞社記者采訪時(shí)說：“非洲和許多非洲國家都不可能忽視電力供應(yīng)短缺的問題。”

“今天的挑戰(zhàn)不會(huì)在一夜之間得到解決，因此需要一種更加平衡的方法。”標(biāo)準(zhǔn)銀行的這位高管補(bǔ)充道。

李峻 編譯自 油價(jià)網(wǎng)

原文如下：

Africa Needs $700 Billion In Clean Energy Investment

Africa will need financing of around $700 billion in the next decade to expand green energy development and the mining of key energy transition metals such as cobalt, copper, and lithium, a top executive at Africa’s top lender by assets said.

Hundreds of millions of people in Africa do not have access to electricity, and renewables could be part of the solution, analysts say. At the same time, Africa has resources such as cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo, copper in Zambia, platinum and manganese in South Africa, and lithium deposits in Zimbabwe.  

The investment in further development of these resources and funding for more renewable energy power generation will have to come mostly from international investors and institutions because Africa’s banks will not be able to provide all the lending, South Africa-based Standard Bank Group says.

“Many of the minerals that are required to build solar panels, lithium batteries, wind turbines and so on, are found in sub-Saharan Africa,” Kenny Fihla, chief executive officer of Standard Bank’s corporate and investment banking unit, told Bloomberg.  

“Our team has also quantified the amount of investment that is required in that space as in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars,” Fihla added.

Standard Bank itself expects to reach the “upper end” of lending – the equivalent of around $13 billion – for renewable energy by 2026, the bank’s executive said.  

Standard Bank, however, has defended its role in funding fossil fuel projects.

The bank says that access to energy in Africa will continue to drive its support for fossil fuel projects.

“It is not possible for Africa and many of the African countries to ignore the shortage of electricity supply,” Fihla said in a recent interview with Bloomberg.

“Today’s challenges are not going to be resolved overnight and therefore a much more balanced approach is required,” the executive added.