金風科技成世界最大風機制造商
A Chinese company has become the biggest wind turbine maker, putting an end to more than a decade of European and US dominance.
一家中國公司成爲世界最大的風力渦輪機制造商，結束了10多年來歐美公司在該領域的主導地位。
Hong Kong-listed Goldwind installed so much turbine capacity in 2015 that it overtook the long-time market leader, Denmark’s Vestas, as well as General Electric , according to FTI Consulting, a business advisory firm.
根據商業諮詢公司富事高商務諮詢(FTI Consulting)的數據，在香港上市的金風科技(Goldwind)2015年風電裝機總容量超過了長期以來的市場領導者——丹麥公司維斯塔斯(Vestas)和通用電氣(General Electric)。
“For the wind industry, 2015 is the year of China,” Feng Zhao, a senior director in FTI’s energy practice, said. “China not only helped make 2015 another record year for the wind industry, it was home to five of the top 10 turbine manufacturers.” The companies have ridden a surge in wind power in China, site of nearly half of turbine capacity installed last year.
“對於風力行業而言，2015年是中國年，”富事高能源業務高級總監趙峯表示，“中國不僅讓2015年成爲了風力行業再創記錄的一年，還是十大風機制造商中5家的所在地。”這些企業乘上了中國的風電發展熱潮，去年近一半風電裝機容量都來自中國。
China last year edged past the EU’s much older wind market with a cumulative capacity of 145 gigawatts that the government aims to boost to 200GW by 2020 as it strives to cut the smog choking its biggest cities. The EU had 141.6GW of cumulative capacity at the end of 2015, according to the Global Wind Energy Council.
去年，中國以145GW的累積風電裝機容量略微超過歷史長得多的歐盟(EU)風電市場。努力減輕困擾中國大城市霧霾問題的中國政府設定了目標，到2020年時將這個數字提高到200GW。根據全球風能理事會(Global Wind Energy Council)的數據，歐盟2015年底累積風電裝機容量爲141.6GW。
Goldwind dominates its home market, accounting for more than a quarter of new turbines, according to Bloom-berg New Energy Finance. But the group has set its sights further afield to the US, Chile, Ecuador, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
據彭博新能源財經(Bloomberg New Energy Finance)的數據，金風科技成爲本土市場的龍頭，在新增裝機中的佔比超過四分之一。該集團還將眼光投向海外，包括美國、智利、厄瓜多爾、巴基斯坦和埃塞俄比亞。
The growing presence of Chinese turbines is a factor in a round of consolidation in the wind industry.
在風電行業的這一輪整合中，一個影響因素是中國造的風力機佔據越來越大的市場。
The latest move came last month when it emerged that Siemens, ranked the fourth biggest turbine maker by FTI, was in talks to acquire Spain’s Gamesa, a step that could create the biggest wind turbine maker by market share. If sealed, that deal would add pressure on Vestas and GE, ranked numbers two and three, respectively.
風電行業的最新整合動作發生在上個月，被富事高列爲第四大風機制造商的西門子(Siemens)傳出在洽購西班牙Gamesa，此舉可能打造出以市場份額計的最大風機制造商。該收購協議一旦達成，將給分列第二、第三大風機制造商的維斯塔斯和通用電氣帶來更多壓力。
Wind power accounted for 44 per cent of all new electricity generation added in the EU in 2015, FTI said, more than any other source of energy. It overtook natural gas as the largest power generation source installed in the US last year, according to Bloomberg data.
據富事高表示，歐盟2015年新增發電中，風力發電佔44%，超過其它所有發電方式。根據彭博的數據，去年風電還超過天然氣成爲美國最大的發電來源。
