“Turning the future”: Chancellor Olaf Scholz continues to support the federal government’s energy policy – also behind a state-supported industrial electricity price, as Economics Minister Habeck wants?
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended the course of the federal government in energy policy. “Germany’s transformation plan is in place,” said the SPD politician at Industry Day in Berlin. Germany is in the middle of the “turning point in the future”. The federal government is working on converting the energy system and building a hydrogen infrastructure.
The “Germany pace” of the transformation of the energy system is law or will soon be law. The costs of generating energy from wind and sun are already significantly lower than those from all other forms of energy. “And if we were to expand wind power in the south and west where we are in the north and east, and if we already had the necessary networks, then we would already have significantly lower energy costs throughout Germany,” said the Chancellor.
Scholz did not go into the debate about a state-subsidized industrial electricity price. Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) wants one of these. One of Habeck’s concepts is controversial in the coalition.
Industry President Siegfried Russwurm criticized the federal government. The “delta” between ambitions and practical implementation is getting bigger every day. “Some things are going completely in the wrong direction,” which is causing the industry serious concerns. Russwurm called for less regulation and more speed for planning and approval processes to become faster.
Source: Stern
