日本商社住友集团决定退出孟加拉国Matarbari燃煤电厂的拟扩建项目，作为其逐步放弃煤炭相关业务，以在2050年前实现碳中和的战略的一部分。

去年5月，住友集团承诺停止投资新的燃煤电厂时，仅破例保留了这一个拟扩建项目。而退出该项目的决定彻底结束了未来住友对任何燃煤发电项目的参与。

该项目旨在扩建Matarbari燃煤电厂，根据2017年8月与孟加拉国国有煤电公司签署的合同，包括住友、工程公司东芝和石川岛播磨重工业（IHI）在内的日本财团正在建设600 MW的1号和2号超临界燃煤机组。这两台机组计划于2024年7月投入运营。

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住友的目标是在2030年前放弃其动力煤矿资产，并在21世纪40年代后半期退出所有正在进行的燃煤发电项目，包括国内和海外项目开发。

住友计划到2035年，煤炭占其电力输出的20％，天然气和可再生能源分布占比50％和30％。并且，与2019年水平相比，燃煤发电的二氧化碳排放量减少60％以上。2020年，住友的电力组合中，煤炭、天然气和可再生能源的占比分别为50%、30%和20%。

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Sumitomo exits Bangladesh coal plant expansion plan

Japanese trading house Sumitomo has decided to withdraw from a possible expansion of Bangladesh's Matarbari coal-fired power plant, as part of its strategy to gradually abandon its coal-related businesses to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Sumitomo earlier made an exception for the possible expansion project when it pledged to stop investing in new coal-fired power plants in May last year. The decision to leave brings to an end Sumitomo's involvement in any future coal-fired power projects.

The project is aimed at expanding the Matarbari coal-fired power plant, where a Japanese consortium, including Sumitomo and engineering firms Toshiba and IHI, are constructing the 600MW No.1 and No.2 ultra super-critical coal-firedunits under a contract with Bangladesh's state-owned Coal Power Generation signed in August 2017. Both unitsare scheduled to begin operations in July 2024.

Sumitomo is aiming to abandon its thermal coal mine assets by 2030 and withdraw from all ongoing coal-fired power projects in the latter half of the 2040s, including both domestic and overseas project developments.

Sumitomo has a target for coal to make up 20pc, gas 50pc and renewables 30pc of its power output by 2035, while cutting CO₂ emissions from coal-fired generation by more than 60pc compared with 2019 levels by then. Sumitomo's power mix was 50pc fuelled by coal, 30pc by gas and 20pc by renewables in 2020.