German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/15,
pp. 991-992.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
Minister Habeck now wants to construct the so-called
renewable energies three times faster, withdraw from coal by 2030 and never
again allow the CO2 price to fall below 60 euros per ton. Herr
Minister, is it actually clear to you what that means for the people and the
workplaces? Your Ministry proceeds on the basis that our electricity
requirement will triple by 2030 because in the future we should drive and heat
with electricity. In the last year alone, eleven coal power plants and three
coal power plants with a total of 9 gigawatts capacity were shut down.
Timon Gremmels (SPD): Gut so!
Germany is the only country in the world that withdraws from
coal and nuclear energy at the same time.
Timon Gremmels (SPD): Gut so!
The Wall Street
Journal designates that as the “world’s dumbest energy policy”.
Enrico Komning (AfD): So it is!
Alone in Green-governed Baden-Württemberg, the energy supplier
EnBW wants to shut down in this year an additional 6 gigawatts – over 60
percent of the electricity required there. Even if the Green State government
in Stuttgart could realize its unrealistic wishful thinking of 1,000 additional
wind industry installations, these would achieve just an insufficient 1.5
gigawatts. So-called alternative energies thus cannot cover even nominally the necessary
electricity requirement.
Timon Gremmels (SPD): Complete nonsense!
And what do you actually do when it is night and no wind
blows, Herr Minister? An industrial country plainly cannot be managed with wind
and sun alone. On account of the electricity incapacity, EON chief Birnbaum
warns of, besides many other things, the danger of the shutdown of entire
cities; that is, of blackouts.
The world’s dumbest energy policy has led to that we in
Germany have the world’s highest electricity prices – twice as high as in our
neighboring countries. You are thus forcing businesses to shift their production
and workplaces to foreign countries; as for example, Daimler and BASF to China because
there energy is secure and of good value.
Each year the electricity will be shut off at 400,000
households and 7.4 million people will freeze in their dwellings
Beatrix von Storch (AfD): That is asozial!
because they can no longer pay the high energy prices. The
explosion of the gas prices, in regards which the state receives around 60
percent, is not allowed to remain hidden even from you.
Put an end to this madness! Finally concern yourself that in
Germany one no longer freezes and needs sit in the dark. Stop the world’s
dumbest economic policy!
Hearty thanks.
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