弗诺瓦公司首席执行官斯科特·斯特拉齐克表示，该公司正在等待委内瑞拉付款，之后才会开始修复该国破败的电网。
Vernova Inc. is awaiting payment from Venezuela before starting repairs on the country’s dilapidated power grid, Chief Executive Officer Scott Strazik said.
斯特拉齐克周三在接受采访时表示，这家美国公司已安排好承包商，并完成了工程设计和规划。但由于委内瑞拉正在重建其与国际公司开展业务的流程，该公司尚未获得任何相关工作的订单。
The US company has lined up contractors and completed engineering and planning. But it has yet to book any orders for the work as Venezuela rebuilds its processes for doing business with international companies, Strazik said in an interview Wednesday.
他说：“这不是那种我们可以在开工前不收到付款就执行的市场环境——规划工作除外——我们确实在等待第一笔资金注入。”
“This isn’t a market environment that we will execute without being paid before we start doing the work, other than the planning, and we’re really waiting for the first capital infusion,” he said.
电网修复对于实现特朗普政府重振委内瑞拉以石油为基础的经济的目标至关重要。目前长期停电正从工厂车间到城市街道引发日益增长的不满情绪。而且随着政治过渡势头增强，美国支持的、由代总统德尔西·罗德里格斯领导的临时政府正面临越来越大的压力，被要求保持供电。
The grid repairs are critical to realizing the Trump administration’s goal of reviving Venezuela’s oil-based economy amid chronic blackouts that are stoking growing frustration, from factory floors to city streets. And as a political transition gathers steam, the US-backed interim administration of acting President Delcy Rodríguez is under rising pressure to keep lights on.
去年9月，GE Vernova与委内瑞拉签署了一项协议，帮助恢复该国的火力和水力发电、输电及变电站，此前数十年的国家忽视和管理不善已造成严重破坏。此前，该公司于6月与国有公用事业公司Corpoelec签署了一项框架协议。但该公司尚未就逐台机组的修复签订单独合同。
In September, GE Vernova signed a pact with Venezuela to help recover the country’s thermal and hydroelectric generation, transmission and substations after decades of state neglect and mismanagement. This followed a framework deal the company signed with state-owned utility Corpoelec in June. But it has yet to strike individual contracts for unit-by-unit repairs.
专家估计，严重依赖水力发电的电力行业至少需要250亿美元的投资。
Experts estimate the power sector, which relies heavily on hydroelectric generation, needs at least $25 billion of investment.
近期唯一的大型修复项目是一台600兆瓦的燃油机组，一家中国公司目前正在根据一份可追溯至约2010年的合同对其进行测试。
The only big repair on the immediate horizon is a 600-megawatt oil-fired unit that a Chinese company is currently testing under a contract dating back to around 2010.
至关重要的是，被视为委内瑞拉备受吹捧的经济复苏跳板的石油行业，其大部分业务运转都依赖电网供电。根据一项新的碳氢化合物法，石油生产商本应自行安排发电，但由于设备交付延迟以及难以获得运行这些设备所需的燃料供应，进展一直缓慢。
Crucially, the oil sector that’s considered the springboard for Venezuela’s vaunted economic recovery relies on the grid to power most of its operations. Under a new hydrocarbons law, oil producers are supposed to line up their own generation, but progress has been slow because of equipment delays and difficulties accessing fuel supply to run them.