据路透社2023年7月21日马德里报道，西班牙国家天然气协会（Sedigas）日前在马德里表示，西班牙不得不求助于所有适用的天然气发电厂，以应对最近几天高温引发不断飙升的电力需求。

和欧洲其他许多国家一样，西班牙也遭受了热浪的袭击，气温已经超过了40摄氏度(104华氏度)。由于西班牙民众启用空调来应对高温，电力需求也随之飙升。

Sedigas表示，7月25日，当这些天然气发电厂的发电量占到西班牙总发电量的30%时，“系统运营商不得不动用所有可用的天然气生产装置来满足需求”。

这些被称为联合循环发电厂的燃气发电厂，在夜间早些时候亦即晚上10时左右，发挥着重要的作用，那时电力需求仍然高企，但太阳能发电厂的贡献很小。

Sedigas表示，在6月1日至7月19日期间，天然气发电厂生产了西班牙大约22%的电力。去年，这些燃气发电厂生产了全国近四分之一的电力。

西班牙最大的连锁百货公司之一的英格列斯百货公司（El Corte inglsams）本周早些时候表示，空调设备的销量大幅上升，人们对宠物冷却垫的兴趣也有所增加。

李峻 译自 路透社

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Spain activates all its gas plants to cope with heatwave

Spain had to resort to all available gas plants to cope with growing electricity demand triggered by the scorching temperatures in recent days, industry association Sedigas said on Thursday.

The country, like many others, has been hammered by a heatwave that has pushed temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). As Spaniards turned to air conditioning to tackle high temperatures, electricity demand went up.

On Tuesday, when these plants produced around 30% of the overall electricity, "the system operator had to resort to all available natural gas production units to be able to meet the demand," Sedigas said.

These plants, known as combined cycle power plants, play an important role in particular in the early hours of the night, at around 10 p.m., when demand is still high but the contribution of solar plants is minimal.

Between June 1 and July 19, Natural gas plants produced around 22% of the country's electricity, Sedigas said. Last year, these pants produced almost a fourth of the country's electricity.

El Corte Inglés, one of Spain's largest department store chains, said earlier this week that sales of air conditioning units had jumped, as had interest in cooling pads for pets.