Vice-Chancellor, Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection of Germany Robert Habek ruled out extending the life of the remaining three nuclear power plants (NPP) in the country in order to save gas, Reuters reports.
Robert Habek said at the Open Doors Day at the German Ministry of Economy that if the nuclear power plant continues to operate, gas consumption can be reduced by a maximum of 2%.
“For the little that we will gain there, this is the wrong decision,” the minister said, adding that there are other ways to save gas.
“This is not the cheapest, and also not the safest technology for supplying Europe and the world in the future,” said the head of the German Ministry of Economy. However, he pointed out that a return to nuclear power would only cause serious public debate.
Habek accused the Bavarian authorities of mistakes in energy policy. For example, possible power outages in the winter, he said, could be the result of political mistakes in Bavaria, since renewable energy sources are underdeveloped in the “southeastern region of Germany”. In particular, the head of the Ministry of Economy noted that the Prime Minister of Bavaria, Markus Söder, always refers to the well-developed solar energy in the region.
“The only problem is that the sun doesn’t shine at night in Bavaria either, and the days in Bavaria are shorter in January. This means that nothing can be done with solar energy at night in Bavaria in January, other sources are needed. They have not been expanded,” the Vice Chancellor says.
This could be compensated by electricity from the northern part of Germany if the electrical networks were expanded, which, however, did not happen sufficiently. Under certain circumstances, according to Habek, this can become a problem. Germany is an electricity exporting country, there is a European electricity trade, Habek concluded. In this context, the minister assured that the situation in winter is currently being calculated.
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