石油设备网讯 据路透社巴黎报道，周五，道达尔高管们表示，该集团在法国每月将接待约15万名零售能源客户，并将提前实现2022年的业务目标。
这家法国能源集团正寻求通过扩大零售电力和天然气市场来拓宽其收入来源，在这个市场中，需求正从污染更大的化石燃料转向低碳能源。
该公司表示，计划每年在低碳电力领域投资15亿美元至20亿美元。
竞争对手荷兰皇家壳牌公司已表示，计划在可再生能源和低碳业务上投入同等数额的资金。
道达尔以17亿美元于2016年收购了比利时第三大住宅领域天然气和可再生能源电力供应商Lampiris，并在2018年收购了法国电力独立供应商Direct Energie，合并公司业务，使其成为一家经营燃气、风能、太阳能和水力发电的综合企业，同时还直接向零售客户出售电力。
该集团设定的目标是，到2022年，法国和比利时将有700万名客户，约占市场的15%，而目前只有400万名客户。
道达尔在欧洲的电力和天然气业务负责人Patrick Pouyanne和Xavier Caitucoli告诉记者，目前的趋势使得这个目标在2022年之前可以实现。
道达尔现在是法国第三大零售电力供应商，仅次于前垄断企业法国电力公司EDF和法国能源巨头Engie，也是包括法国零售商Leclerc、法国零售商巨头Casino和意大利埃尼在内的市场上最大的替代供应商。
根据法国能源市场监管机构CRE的数据，目前EDF拥有2840万客户，是市场的领头羊。
Pouyanne表示，道达尔将利用其品牌认可和加油站网络赢得客户，该公司计划从6月1日起，向首批签署住宅电力合同的数百万客户提供在其法国加油站每升汽油1欧分的价格。
该公司还计划扩大发电能力，特别是在天然气和可再生能源方面。
该公司拥有四家天然气发电厂，计划收购另外两家由德国Uniper运营的工厂，并已做出最终投资决定，在2021年年底之前再建一家。
Pouyanne表示：“我们可能不会就此止步，”他指出，欧洲努力停止燃煤发电，而法国计划削减其核电能力。
比利时本月通过了一项法案，旨在刺激到2030年前对天然气发电和4000兆瓦海上风力发电能力的投资，以取代其老化的核反应堆。
Caitucoli表示，道达尔将参与比利时的能源转型，在那里，它拥有100万客户，并拥有一座400兆瓦的天然气发电厂。
Pouyanne补充说：“具体地说，我们目前正在考虑在比利时建造另一个天然气发电厂，但我暂时不能透露具体地点。天然气发电是有前景的，我们正在采取这一立场，如果价格有竞争力，我们可能会购买或建造天然气发电厂。”
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
Oil major Total targets expansion in retail power market
Oil major Total is picking up about 150,000 retail energy customers a month in France and is on course to hit its 2022 target for the business ahead of schedule, company executives said on Friday.
The French energy group is looking to broaden its revenue streams with expansion in a retail power and gas market in which demand is shifting to low-carbon energy from more polluting fossil fuels.
Total has said it plans to invest between $1.5 billion and $2 billion a year on low-carbon electricity.
Rival Royal Dutch Shell, which is expanding its own retail power business, has said it plans to invest the same amount on renewables and low-carbon business.
Total bought Belgium’s Lampiris in 2016 and Direct Energie last year for $1.7 billion, merging the businesses in its push to become a so-called integrated player operating gas-fired, wind, solar and hydropower generation while also selling power directly to retail clients.
The group had set a target of 7 million clients across France and Belgium — about 15 percent of the market — by 2022, up from 4 million currently.
Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne and Xavier Caitucoli, the head of Total’s power and gas business in Europe, told journalists that current trends make the target achievable before 2022.
It is now France’s third-largest retail power supplier, behind former monopolies EDF and Engie, and the biggest alternative supplier in a market that also includes Leclerc, Casino and Italy’s Eni.
EDF is the market leader with 28.4 million customers, according to data from French energy market regulator CRE.
Pouyanne said that Total will leverage its brand recognition and petrol station network to win customers, with plans to offer 1 euro cent for every liter of petrol bought form its French forecourts to the first million clients that sign up for its residential electricity offer from June 1.
The company also plans to expand its power generation capacity, particularly in gas and renewables.
It has four gas-fired plants, plans to buy two others operated by Germany’s Uniper and has made a final investment decision to build another by the end of 2021.
“We will likely not stop there,” Pouyanne said, pointing to European efforts to halt coal-fired generation while France plans to reduce its nuclear power capacity.
Belgium this month passed bills aimed at spurring investment in gas-fired power and 4,000 megawatts of new offshore wind farm capacity by 2030 to replace its aging nuclear reactors.
Caitucoli said Total would participate in the energy transformation in Belgium, where it has a million customers and owns a 400 MW gas power plant.
“Concretely, we are currently looking at a project to build another gas power plant in Belgium, but I will not say where,” Pouyanne added.
“There is a future for gas-fired generation and we are taking that position. We would likely buy or build if prices are competitive.”
