New federal government
Green Warn Minister: hesitation at renewable becomes expensive
The new Minister of Economic Affairs wants to see more gas power plants quickly. The wrong focus for the Greens.
The Greens warn the new federal government against hesitation when expanding renewable energies. Wind and solar energy made Germany more independent, said faction vice Julia Verlinden from the German Press Agency. If the Federal Government waned here, it will be expensive – “in the form of blackmailing of autocratic states, rising CO2 prices and climate affairs”.
The new Federal Minister of Economics Katherina Reiche (CDU) had announced a quick addition of new gas power plants in order to strengthen security of supply. A reality check of the energy transition is necessary, because the expansion of renewable energies also caused costs for network expansion and network bottlenecks. “We need a kind of monitoring and to make ourselves about the status of the energy transition.”
Verlinden emphasized that the electricity generation costs for renewable can be clearly below those for new fossil power plants. At the same time, she welcomed that Reiche excludes a return to nuclear power. “Better late than never seemed to have accepted the expensive and risky atomic energy in Germany,” said Verlinden.
Reiche had emphasized that the chance of returning to nuclear power had been wasted in the energy crisis and “we have to live with the situation now”.
dpa
Source: Stern
