Germany To Rely On Coal To Avoid Blackouts
JANUARY 12, 2024
Exclusive: An internal SPD document reveals a shift by the Minister of Economics on the coal phase-out.
It was the big project for the green transformation of electricity generation in Germany – and perhaps the most dazzling energy policy project of Germany’s coalition government: After the nuclear phase-out and the targeted coal phase-out as early as possible, natural gas would serve as a bridge technology – towards a new, green electricity world in Germany.
This bridge was to a new electricity world in which renewable energy, especially sun and wind, set the pace. Angela Merkel had already marked this ‘turnaround’ as Chancellor. As “backup” for the dark doldrums, i.e. whenr the sun doesn’t shine enough and the wind doesn’t blow enough, new, highly efficient and, according to Economics Minister Habeck’s wishes, ideally hydrogen – in the future natural gas power plants would step to secure power supply.
This is the plan of the federal government and, above all, its Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party). This plan also has a name: the so-called Power Plant Strategy. This strategy was intended to encourage the construction of new gas power plants in Germany with an output of at least 15 gigawatts, i.e. building at least 30 large power plants by 2030. Even this is quite a challenge. But then came Russia’s war against Ukraine. And then came the Federal Finance Minister’s austerity policy and, most recently, the budget crisis at the end of 2023.
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