The word the Germans use for their plan is starting to make its way into conversations elsewhere: energiewende, the energy transition. Worldwide, Germany is being held up as a model, cited by environmental activists as proof that a transformation of the global energy system is possible.
德国人把自己的方案叫“能源转型”(energiewende),这个词已经开始被其他国家和地区的一些人挂在嘴边。德国被全世界奉为楷模,环保人士常常以它为例来证明,全球能源系统的转型是可以实现的。
But it is becoming clear that the transformation, if plausible, will be wrenching. Some experts say the electricity business is entering a period of turmoil beyond anything in its 130-year history, a disruption potentially as great as those that have remade the airlines, the music industry and the telephone business.
但人们越来越清楚地看到,这种转型即便可行,也会是一个痛苦的过程。一些业内人士称,电力产业进入了它130年的历史上最激烈的动荡期,它正迎来一场裂变,其影响可能堪比航空、音乐以及电话产业曾经发生的那些重塑产业格局的大裂变。
Taking full advantage of the possibilities may require scrapping the old rules of electricity markets and starting over, industry observers say — perhaps with techniques like paying utilities extra to keep conventional power plants on standby for times when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining. The German government has acknowledged the need for new rules, though it has yet to figure out what they should be. A handful of American states are beginning a similar reconsideration of how their electric systems operate.
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