国际清洁能源署——蓝色经济促进海上可再生能源发展

Blue Economy Can Help Members Boost Offshore Renewables

30 June 2022| Articles

蓝色海洋经济可以帮助成员国促进海上可再生能源发展

“An important part of the solution to today’s energy crisis may lay with our oceans as a source of local and abundant renewable energy”, said Roland Roesch, Deputy-Director of IRENA’s Innovation and Technology Centre, at the fourth meeting of the Collaborative Framework on Ocean Energy/Offshore Renewables, “which also may foster a blue economy benefiting coastal areas and island territories. But we need to create the enabling frameworks to speed up its deployment.”

Co-facilitated by Tonga and Italy, the virtual meeting was attended by 57 participants from 32 Members and States in Accession, as well as representatives of the industry and international organisations, including Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Ocean Energy Europe. The meeting’s purpose was to share best practices to accelerate the deployment of offshore renewables globally.

According to IRENA estimates, 2000 gigawatts (GW) of installed offshore wind capacity will be needed to keep the goal of limiting global temperature to 1.5°C and achieve net zero by 2050. However, this progress will not come without challenges.

根据国际可再生能源署预测，为了保持限制全球气温升高在1.5摄氏度之内的目标和到2050年达到净零排放，需要安装200吉瓦海上风电容量。然而，这个进展并非没有挑战。

H.E. ‘Akau’ola, Co-Facilitator of the Collaborative Framework and Ambassador of Tonga to the UAE, said renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydrogen were dominating the energy base. But, he said, there is a sufficient body of quantitative evidence that offshore renewable energy has enormous untapped potential to drive the global energy transition.

协作框架共同召集人汤加驻沙特大使说，这些可再生能源例如太阳能、风能和氢能这些是主导的能源基础，但是，海上可再生能源有巨大的未开发的潜力去驱动世界能源转型。

Dorothea Damkjaer, Chief Advisor – Green Diplomacy and Climate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark, introduced a new initiative to promote such a collaboration: The Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA). Founded by Denmark, IRENA and GWEC, the complementary initiative has the ambition to create a global driving force for the uptake of offshore wind through political mobilisation.

“GOWA intends to have a significant role in convening governments and industry to address issues pertaining to the deployment of offshore renewables and sharing best practices for overcoming obstacles. Its workstreams will be determined by members’ interest and willingness to collaborate. The aim is to achieve a total global offshore wind capacity of 380 GW by 2030, with 35 GW of annual new capacity on average each year across the 2020s,” she added.

世界海上风电联盟将在召集政府和行业来解决问题、部署海上可再生能源和分享困难克服的最佳实践有一个显著的作用。它的工作将由成员的利益和合作意愿来决定。目标是到2030年达到全世界海上风电容量380吉瓦，在20世纪20年代每年新增35吉瓦。

Denmark, IRENA and GWEC called on all interested members and parties to leverage GOWA to support the acceleration of offshore renewable energy solutions across different sectors. Sharing enablers of best practices to accelerate the uptake of ocean renewables, Rebecca Williams, Global Head of Offshore, GWEC, said offshore wind flourishes in a policy environment that significantly reduces the time to grant permits and monetise all the value of offshore renewables via innovative electricity procurement approaches as discussed in the EU.

The meeting concluded with a live polling session, inviting participants to share their views on the focus of working groups under the Collaborative Framework. Members prioritised facilitating and expediting permitting processes for offshore wind and instruments for scaling up investment for ocean energy as the priority to be addressed by policy makers.

原文链接：Blue Economy Can Help Members Boost Offshore Renewables (irena.org)