英國能源安全大臣格蘭特·沙普斯告訴路透社，英國希望通過能源公司的參與到提供融資和保險等多種選擇，參與開發(fā)日本的海上風電。

七國集團在日本北部札幌舉行為期兩天的會議后，同意加快可再生能源的開發(fā)，承諾到2030年將海上風電容量集體增加150吉瓦，太陽能容量集體增加到1太瓦以上。英國是世界上最大的海上風電市場之一，裝機容量超過10吉瓦。

該公司計劃在本世紀末將產能提高到50吉瓦，英國石油公司和殼牌公司將在該地區(qū)積極擴張。

沙普斯說：“我認為英國(在日本)的投入可能既包括能源公司——物理方面——也包括金融方面、金融機制、保險和技術咨詢。”。

他說，在札幌舉行七國集團能源和氣候峰會之前，沙普斯花了幾天時間討論了與日本政府和工業(yè)界可能的合作。日本啟動了第二輪大型公開拍賣，為四個能夠產生1.8吉瓦海上風電的新地區(qū)選擇運營商。

它希望到2030年安裝10吉瓦的海上風電容量，到2040年安裝45吉瓦。沙普斯沒有具體提到海上風電拍賣，但表示在海上風電開發(fā)方面“英國和日本之間有非常廣泛的合作領域”。他還指出，七國集團在太陽能和海上風力發(fā)電方面設定的目標是該集團的“總體”目標。

沙普斯說：“這并沒有被分解為單個國家，我懷疑一些國家會在總體比較投入方面取得超額成就，部分原因是地理……或風更大的地方。”。

Britain wants to take part in developing Japan's offshore wind power via options ranging from the participation of its energy companies to providing financing and insurance, Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps told Reuters.

The Group of Seven rich nations have agreed to speed up the development of renewable energy following their two-day meeting in Sapporo in northern Japan, pledging to collectively increase offshore wind capacity by 150 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 and solar capacity to more than 1 terawatt. The UK is one of the world's largest offshore wind markets, with more than 10 GW of installed capacity.

It plans to boost its capacity to as much as 50 GW by the end of the decade, with BP and Shell actively expanding in the area.

"I think the British input (in Japan) is probably both the energy companies - the physical side of it - but also the finance side of it, the finance mechanism, the insurance, the technical know-how consultancy," Shapps said.

Prior to the G7 energy and climate summit in Sapporo, Shapps spent a couple of days discussing possible cooperation with Japan's government and industry, he said. Japan has launched a second major round of public auctions to select operators for four new areas capable of generating 1.8 GW of offshore wind power.

It wants to install up to 10 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and up to 45 GW by 2040. Shapps did not specifically mention the offshore wind power auctions but said there were "very broad areas of cooperation between UK and Japan" in offshore wind development. He also noted the targets set by G7 on solar and offshore wind generation were "overall" for the group.

"It is not broken down into individual countries and I suspect that some countries will overachieve on the overall comparative input partly because of geography... or windier places," Shapps said.