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The UK now has a state-owned clean-energy champion. Can it succeed?

2025/7/3
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Dan McGrail: 我认为让英国人民参与能源转型至关重要，这不仅是一项经济机遇，也应该让人民从中受益。作为能源行业的专业人士，我认为国有企业在推动能源转型方面可以发挥独特作用。虽然私营部门在政策和经济稳定的环境下表现出色，但面对复杂的世界和新兴技术，国有企业可以与私营部门合作，投资于风险较高的领域，从而催化投资并增强市场信心。我们GB Energy的目标是到2035年发展到与Allstead或Vattenfall等国有能源公司类似的规模，通过明智的投资，尤其是在漂浮式海上风电等领域，来支持英国的能源转型。我们还将致力于与供应链企业合作，在阿伯丁等地区建立英国国内冠军企业，并扩展到碳捕获和储存、长时储能等领域。通过赠款、股权投资等方式，与国家财富基金等合作伙伴共同支持这些技术的发展和部署。我们相信，市场需要像GB Energy这样具有长期主义和更大风险偏好的参与者与私营部门合作，共同推动能源转型。 Dan McGrail: 我希望GB Energy能够与私营部门合作，共同推动能源转型，降低能源成本，并建立具有变革潜力的智能本地能源系统。通过吸引私人资本，缓解供应链中的容量限制，并重点关注如何将这些系统转化为一种模式，使其更容易被更多的社会住房提供者、地方当局和医院所接受。我希望看到全国各地都有智能系统，将太阳能、电池存储和电动汽车充电结合在一起，并将其转化为商业模式，使人们能够以合理的价格获得这些服务。我希望看到GB Energy的标志出现在全国各地的医院、学校和其他地方社区组织上，并投资于我们需要的这些前沿技术，看到漂浮的海上风电场在北海旋转，其供应链在苏格兰东北部和阿伯丁蓬勃发展。我希望看到一些聪明的英国公司出口他们的技术诀窍，也许GB Energy是这个生态系统的一部分，将这些技术诀窍出口到其他国家。

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When the UK handed the Labour party a parliamentary majority last July, it promised to build a new state owned energy company called Great British Energy. It's almost exactly one year since its creation, and GB Energy now has a budget of £5.8 billion to get the organization off the ground. It sounds like a lot of money, but is it? And what exactly will the organization do with all of it? On *Zero *this week, Akshat Rathi spoke to Dan McGrail, interim CEO of GB Energy, to find out the answers.

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