据Oilprice网站1月25日报导，周一，沙特主要财经新闻门户网站Argaam援引沙特能源部长阿卜杜勒阿齐兹·本·萨勒曼王子的话，沙特正在努力寻求用太阳能和燃气发电取代石油发电。
萨勒曼王子在一次阐述沙特能源战略的会议上说道，作为“可持续性碳氢化合物需求”计划的一部分，沙特将致力于用太阳能发电取代现在仍在使用的石油发电。
Argaam指出:“鉴于该计划对国民经济的积极影响以及减少国家财政的浪费，它将被列为沙特最重要的计划之一。”
尽管沙特不断保证，该国经济正在实现多元化并减少对石油的依赖。而用太阳能发电取代石油，将使沙特阿拉伯这一欧佩克最大产油国和实际领导者有更多的石油可供出口。增强沙特在全球石油市场上的影响力，并帮助其从原油销售中获得更多收入。
沈彦 摘译自 Oilprice
原文如下:
Saudi Arabia Looks To Stop Using Crude For Domestic Power Generation
Saudi Arabia is working to replace the use of petroleum liquids for power generation with solar energy and gas-fired capacity, Argaam reported As part of the program ‘Hydrocarbon Demand Sustainability’, the world’s largest oil exporter will aim to replace petroleum—which it still burns for electricity—with solar power energy, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said at a meeting to describe the strategy of the Saudi energy ministry.
“The program will rank among the most important initiatives, given its value added to the national economy and its ability to stop the country’s financial waste,” Argaam noted.
Replacing petroleum with solar energy for electricity generation would free up more oil for OPEC’s top producer and de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, to export. This could potentially give the Kingdom even more sway on the global oil market and help it obtain more revenues from crude oil sales, despite constant assurances that the economic diversification away from oil is underway.
