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The 5 Energy Commandments!
A lack of gas and skyrocketing electricity prices: Germany is trembling before the energy catastrophe!
Anyway: something is happening. Economics Minister Robert Habeck (52, Greens) is now considering longer terms for the last remaining nuclear power plants for 2023, according to “Spiegel”.
He had blocked it for weeks because the end of the nuclear power plant is the Greens’ sacred cow. BUT: In order to avert the supply drama, that is far from enough. BILD has formulated in five commandments what Economics Minister Habeck must do now.
YOU SHOULD BUILD NEW NPP
The fact is: Germany’s electricity requirements will explode in the coming years, partly because of electromobility!
But the additional demand cannot be covered with wind and sun. The physicist and economist Björn Peters from the employers’ association calculates: “In order to satisfy our hunger for energy, we will need 50 new reactors in the future!” Peters urges the traffic light to act: “The energy crisis was caused by politics and must also be overcome by politics! “
THE OLD NPP HAVE TO BE PERMANENTLY CONNECTED TO THE NETWORK
While Habeck might only grant the remaining three nuclear power plants a grace period of a few months, if at all, Veronika Grimm (50) calls for continuous operation until at least 2030.
But that’s not all: the federal government should “check” to bring the three most recently shut down nuclear power plants back on line.
Nuclear power expert Peters does not see a problem either technically or financially: “Investments of a little more than one billion euros are necessary for the re-entry – and a simple resolution of the Bundestag.”
THEY SHALL CREATE POWERFUL MEMORIES
Wind and solar energy are clean, but they don’t get us through the winter: “There are currently battery storage systems all over Europe that can only absorb the electricity production of one and a half minutes,” says top energy researcher Annalisa Manera (ETH Zurich).
Much too little!
THEY ARE INTENDED TO PROMOTE HYDROGEN
In order to make Germany climate-neutral, the federal government must also initiate the construction of new gas-fired power plants that will be operated with hydrogen from 2030, according to Grimm.
This requires capacities of up to 30 gigawatts, which corresponds to up to 34 new power plants!
“At the same time, massive public and private sector investments in capacities for the production and transport of hydrogen are required in a timely manner. New supply contracts must also be concluded with other countries. In order to advance the energy transition, the storage capacity for electricity from wind power and solar energy must also be greatly expanded,” Grimm continued.
THEY SHOULD ALLOW FRACKING
In Germany there are large gas deposits in shale rock that might be raised with the fracking technique demonized by the Greens.
“These deposits might cover Germany’s gas needs for around ten years,” says Holger Weiß, Deputy Head of the Government’s Expert Commission on Fracking.
Fracking would only be an option in the long term to stabilize the energy supply in Germany. “Because technical preparations would have to be made beforehand and legal hurdles would have to be overcome,” says Weiß. “Technology has made great progress in recent years, the risks to the environment would be manageable.” The fluids that are used for pumping today would no longer endanger drinking water as they used to.
“Nevertheless, there are diffuse fears and ideological reservations that make gas extraction through fracking in Germany unlikely. This resistance to fracking gas is hypocritical in a way, because Germany buys gas from other countries that was extracted using fracking technology.”