欧洲电力行业协会（Eurelectric）表示，随着批发成本飙升至2022年能源危机以来的水平，欧洲必须采取更多措施降低消费者电费。
Europe must do more to bring down power bills for consumers as wholesale costs soar to levels last seen during the 2022 energy crisis, Eurelectric said.
在致欧盟能源部长的一封信中，该行业组织呼吁采取“针对性、有时限”的救济措施。信中称，各国政府应从电费账单中剔除“非能源成本”，这些成本包括电网费用和环境附加费。
In a letter to European Union energy ministers, the trade group called for “targeted, time-limited” relief measures. It said governments should strip bills of “non-energy costs,” which include charges for the grid and environmental levies.
中东冲突今年扰乱了全球能源市场，推高了天然气和其他燃料价格，加剧了整个欧洲的生活成本压力。家庭财务受到挤压，引发多国示浪潮，法国尤为突出。
Conflict in the Middle East has upended global energy markets this year, driving up prices for gas and other fuels and exacerbating cost-of-living pressures across Europe. The squeeze on household finances has fed into a wave of demonstrations in multiple countries, with France a particular flashpoint.
Eurelectric主席Markus Rauramo和秘书长Kristian Ruby在信中表示：“欧洲再次为其对进口化石燃料的依赖付出代价。家庭电费上涨，高耗能行业承压。”欧洲最大电力市场的冬季批发电价是去年冬季的两倍，达到2022年以来的水平。这主要是因为天然气价格飙升，本周一度超过每兆瓦时100欧元，较年初上涨两倍多。
“Once again, Europe is paying the price of its exposure to imported fossil fuels,” Eurelectric President Markus Rauramo and Secretary General Kristian Ruby said in the letter. “Bills are rising for households, energy-intensive industries are under pressure.”Wholesale electricity prices for winter in Europe’s biggest power markets are twice as high as last winter, reaching levels last seen in 2022. That’s largely a result of soaring natural gas, which topped €100 a megawatt-hour this week and has more than tripled since the start of the year.
然而，Eurelectric警告不要补贴燃气发电——意大利正在讨论这一选项——称此举会在各国本应减少天然气需求之际增加需求。
Yet Eurelectric warned against subsidizing gas-fired power generation, an option being discussed in Italy, saying such a move would increase gas demand at a time when countries should be reducing it.