中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社东京报道，周一，世界最大的液化天然气（LNG）买家，日本合资企业JERA正式收购了两家股东所拥有的发电站，成为一家主要的发电企业。

这一举措得到了JERA发言人的证实，支持者们认为这一举措应该能降低成本，提高效率。这是2011年福岛海啸和核灾难暴露了日本电网结构的弱点后，日本电力产业大规模重组的一部分。

东京电力公司（日本最大公用事业公司）和中部电力（日本第三大公用事业公司）合资的企业JERA此前曾为这两家股东进行燃料采购。

目前，它已经接管了他们的化石燃料发电站，使其拥有68千兆瓦的国内天然气和燃煤发电能力，几乎占全国发电量的一半，以及9千兆瓦的海外发电能力。

东京电力和中部电力将继续分别持有其输电网和零售业务，这两家公司都拥有核电站，但目前已经关闭。

福岛核泄漏后，日本政府通过允许新进入者进入、鼓励可再生能源和支持电力市场交易，在高度区域化的1300亿美元电力市场上进行了更多的竞争。

拥有4万亿日元（360亿美元）资产的JERA将控制发电供应链的各个方面，包括液化天然气项目、船舶和国际燃料交易业务的股份。

该公司还计划到2020年中期在东京建造世界上最大的氢电站之一，供应燃料电池汽车和燃料电池巴士。

整合化石燃料工厂是JERA三步骤计划的最后一步，目前该公司每年购买约3500万吨液化天然气，同时还为股东处理上游能源资产和海外发电。

詹晓晶摘自路透社

原文如下：

Japan's JERA becomes energy behemoth with power station business

Japan’s JERA joint venture, the world’s biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), became a major electricity generator on Monday with the formal takeover of power stations owned by its two shareholders.

The move, which was confirmed by a JERA spokesman and that proponents say should cut costs and boost efficiencies, is part of a broad restructure of Japan’s power industry in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima tsunami and nuclear disaster that exposed weaknesses in the structure of the country’s grid.

JERA, which is owned by Tokyo Electric Power and Chubu Electric Power, had earlier taken on fuel procurement for its two shareholders, Japan’s biggest and third-biggest utilities.

It has now assumed control of their fossil fuel power stations, giving it 68 gigawatts (GW) of mostly gas and coal-fired power generation capacity domestically, nearly half the country’s power generation, as well as 9 GW overseas.

Tepco and Chubu will continue to hold separately their transmission grids and retail businesses. Both companies also own nuclear power stations, but they are currently shutdown.

Japan’s government forced through more competition in the country’s highly regionalized $130 billion power market in the wake of the Fukushima meltdowns by allowing new entrants, encouraging renewables and supporting market trading of power.

JERA, with assets of 4 trillion yen ($36 billion), will control all aspects of the supply chain for power generation, including stakes in LNG projects, ships and an international fuel trading operation.

It also plans to build one of the world’s biggest hydrogen stations in Tokyo by mid-2020, supplying fuel cell vehicles and fuel cell buses.

The integration of the fossil fuel plants is the last of a three-step plan for JERA, which currently buys about 35 million tonnes of LNG annually, and also handles upstream energy assets and overseas power generation for its shareholders.​