据今日油价1月8日消息 哈夫波斯特周二援引其获得的法案草案称，纽约市议会环境保护委员会主席计划于周三提出一项法案，要求纽约市政府进行一项可行性研究，以确定该市的燃气发电厂是否可以由使用电池储能的可再生能源替代。

该法案的提出者是在纽约市议会中代表皇后区的议员科斯塔·康斯坦丁尼斯，向《赫芬顿邮报》证实有这样一个法案，但其拒绝提供细节。

根据《赫芬顿邮报》获得的草案，该法案将要求纽约市政府在今年年底之前制定出一个计划，即如何将现有的城市燃气发电厂替换为太阳能、风能以及蓄电池储能等。

纽约24家发电厂中有21家在燃烧天然气，另外3家则在燃烧石油，而纽约现任高级官员则坚决支持遵守《巴黎协定》，控制城市的温室气体排放，在任何可能的情况下，用清洁能源取代化石燃料。

纽约市减少温室气体排放的路线图显示，城市温室气体排放总量的68%以上可归因于发电、供热和制冷建筑所用的能源。

非盈利能源与政策研究所执行主任大卫·波梅兰茨对《赫芬顿邮报》表示，小城市可能已经取代了化石燃料发电，但没有像在纽约这样的城市进行过任何尝试。根据专家的说法，用可再生能源替代天然气发电厂的最后期限将是至关重要的。

多年来，纽约市的官员一直在寻求减少碳排放，并表明他们不太喜欢化石燃料。

去年1月，纽约市起诉英国石油公司、雪佛龙、康菲石油公司、埃克森美孚公司和壳牌公司，要求恢复为气候变化抗灾措施提供资金所需的数十亿美元，该措施是该市为保护其财产和居民免受气候变化带来的持续和日益严重的影响而实施的。

今年7月，一位联邦法官驳回了针对大型石油公司的诉讼，称气候变化应由政府其他两个部门来解决。

王磊 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

The Chair of the Committee on Environmental Protection at the New York City council plans to introduce a bill on Wednesday mandating NYC to carry out a feasibility study if the city’s gas-fired power plants could be replaced with renewable energy using battery storage, HuffPost reported on Tuesday, citing a draft of the bill it had obtained.

The author of the bill, councilman Costa Constantinides, who represents Queens in the NYC Council, confirmed to Huffington Post that there was such a bill, but declined to provide details.

According to the draft HuffPost has obtained, the bill would require NYC to come up with a plan by the end of this year on how it could replace the existing in-city gas-fired power plants with solar and wind energy coupled with battery storage.

Twenty-one of NYC’s 24 power plants burn gas, while the other three burn petroleum, while New York’s current top officials are vocal supporters of sticking to the Paris Agreement and curbing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions, replacing fossil fuels with clean energy wherever and whenever possible.

More than 68 percent of total citywide GHG emissions can be attributed to the energy used to power, heat, and cool buildings.

Small cities may have replaced fossil fuel-powered electricity generation, but nothing has been tried on the scale of a city like New York, David Pomerantz, executive director of the non-profit Energy and Policy Institute, told HuffPost. According to the expert, the deadline in the bill for replacing gas-fired plants with renewables will be crucial.

For years, NYC officials have been looking to reduce carbon emissions and have shown that they don’t like fossil fuels very much.

In January last year, New York City sued BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon, and Shell, seeking “to recover the billions needed to fund climate change resiliency measures that the City needs to implement to protect the City, its property, and its residents from the ongoing and increasingly severe impacts of climate change.”

In July, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit against Big Oil, saying that climate change should be tackled by the other two branches of the government.