German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/86,
pp. 10290-10291.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
Imagine, your electricity service knows when you get up,
when you go to bed, whether you are alone at home, when you cook what you eat
and what you watch on television.
Till Steffen ( Greens): What is that for complete rubbish?
And then also imagine that the electricity service can at
anytime without warning turn off the heating and the electricity for e-autos.
Markus Hümpfer
(SPD): That is not right!
Rainer Kraft (AfD): Ask Herr Müller!
That means: You come home from work glad of your warm
dwelling. Which however is cold because for you, on account of electricity rationing,
the heating electricity was shut off.
Maik Außendorf (Greens): You need for once use your intelligence and not cool down the level!
So you decide to drive to friends so as to warm up. Yet the
accumulator of your e-auto is empty; since for that also the electricity was
shut off. You believe this is from a Hollywood end-of-times movie or from
George Orwell’s 1984?
Maik Außendorf (Greens): A bad AfD fantasy, this is!
No, these are the scenarios which this government prepares
with this law.
That the intelligent electricity counter, the so-called
Smart Meter which the government wants to extensively bring to every household,
makes possible the deepest insight into the private life of citizens is even
confirmed by a study of your own Federal Research Ministry. Researchers of the
FH Münster could with this Smart Meter exactly determine when which household
equipment was used and even which television program was watched.
Timon Gremmels (SPD): What you peek at, I know without a Smart Meter!
How valuable this data is can be seen in that Google is
giving consideration to making free electricity available to customers for
access to their data.
The government asserts that with Smart Meter electricity
costs would fall and the stability of the network would improve. Yet what the
government here is actually doing is to shift onto the backs of the citizens the
blame for its own failures in its botched energy transition. Since, who may disconnect all, withdraw from all, and
wants to provide for an industrial nation with wind and sun alone, is himself
the greatest danger for the stability of our energy supply.
Counter to better knowledge, the Federal government asserts –
you too, Herr Habeck, plainly – that with the Smart Meter electricity costs
would fall. Yet the Ernst & Young analysis commissioned by your own ministry
comes to the conclusion, as can be read word for word in evaluations of your
analysis, “that no costs are to be saved in average households with intelligent
counters”. It is further said: “Accordingly, the costs considerably exceed the
possible savings.” An extensive installation obligation is evaluated in this
analysis “as unreasonable”. And consumer protection organizations in States
which have already introduced these Smart Meters confirm that as a result costs
have even further increased.
What you are thus doing here is to knowingly deceive the
people in this country so as to divert from your own total failures in regards
the energy transition. According to the federal association of consumer
centrals, you thereby expose people to dangers of criminal machinations, since
this data can be abused. For the people, this law yields no use, but only harms
and risks.
Simply let the world’s safest nuclear power plants and
cleanest coal power plants continue to run! Then we need not at all occupy
ourselves today with this entire madness. Do not give Big Brother a chance!
Michael
Kruse (FDP): We give the rightists no chance!
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