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Almost 150 years after photovoltaic (光电的) cells and wind turbines (涡轮机) were
Almost 150 years after photovoltaic (光电的) cells and wind turbines (涡轮机) were
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2024-01-20
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问题
Almost 150 years after photovoltaic (光电的) cells and wind turbines (涡轮机) were invented, they still generate only 7% of the world’s electricity. Yet something remarkable is happening. From being secondary to the energy system just over a decade ago, they are now growing faster than any other energy source and their falling costs are making them competitive with fossil fuels. BP, an oil firm, expects renewables to account for half of the growth in global energy supply over the next 20 years. It is no longer far-fetched to think that the world is entering an era of clean, unlimited and cheap power.
There is a problem, though. To get from here to there requires huge amounts of investment over the next few decades. Normally investors like putting their money into electricity because it offers reliable returns. Yet green energy has a dirty secret. The more it is used, the more it lowers the price of power from any source. That makes it hard to manage the transition to a carbon-free future, during which many generating technologies, clean and dirty, need to remain profitable if the lights are to stay on. Unless the market is fixed, subsidies to the industry will only grow.
Policymakers are already seeing this inconvenient truth as a reason to put the brakes on renewable energy. In parts of Europe, investment in renewables is slowing as subsidies are cut back. However, the solution is not less wind and solar. It is to rethink how the world prices clean energy in order to make better use of it.
At its heart, the problem is that government-supported renewable energy has been imposed on a market designed in a different era. For much of the 20th century, electricity was made and moved by vertically integrated, state-controlled monopolies. From the 1980s onwards, many of these were broken up, privatized and liberalized, so that market forces could determine where best to invest. Today only about 6% of electricity users get their power from monopolies. Yet everywhere the pressure to decarbonize power supply has brought the state creeping back into markets. This is disruptive for three reasons. The first is the subsidy system itself. The other two are inherent to the nature of wind and solar: their intermittency and their very low running costs. All three help explain why power prices are low and public subsidies are addictive. [br] Why can photovoltaic cells and wind turbines compete with fossil fuels?
选项
A、They are clean and unlimited.
B、Their costs keep lowering down.
C、They can produce power more efficiently.
D、They receive more subsidies from the government.
答案
B
解析
细节辨认题。由题干中的compete with fossil fuels定位至第一段第三句。第一段提到了光伏电池和风力发电涡轮机美好的发展前景。尽管现在它们发的电只占全球发电量的7%,但是其发展势头比任何其他能源都要强劲,而且因为成本不断降低使它们能和化石燃料竞争,故答案为B)。
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