German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 21/99, pp. 12463-12464.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
Herr Rowher, I am amazed. Your reaction to failed offshore
write-offs, climbing costs and growing risks is neither a
reconsideration nor a self-criticism. Your answer continues
to run: Still more state hedging [Absicherung].
Lars Rowher (CDU/CSU): That, I never said! A
re-interpretation!
You thereby bestir yourself directly into the fast lane with
drumbeats and trumpets to a purgatory for our country. And
our country is called Deutschland.
Steffen Janich (AfD): Can one again applaud, or?
You hold fast to a construction goal of 70 gigawatts of offshore
performance up to 2045. You prolong the regular run time of
new wind parks from 25 to 35 years. And if you find no investor
who himself wants to carry the business risk, a state-secured
difference contract shall be tendered.
Karsten Hilse (AfD): What nonsense! Socialism pure!
What you designate as “planning realism” I call an admission.
That your hitherto planning doesn’t work, ladies and gentlemen,
look into it: Your entire energy transition has failed.
Dunja Kreiser (SPD): Do you know how many
workplaces participate in that?
You can write 70 gigawatts into the statute; the wind definitely
does not read the Federal statute register.
Alan Alhamwi (Greens): Still!
For years, citizens were told wind electricity will always be
more favorable.
Dunja Kreiser (SPD): 120,000 workplaces!
Now suddenly this allegedly so propitious future requires
a state price guaranty. That is certainly remarkable. The investors
receive planning security, the Federal budget – and thereby the
taxpayer – receives the price risk, ladies and gentlemen. I
personally find that dishonest.
If the market price of the offshore electricity is above the
guaranteed value, the return will be skimmed off. If it is below,
the market premium applies. And how electricity prices and
the costs thereof develop over decades, no one can seriously
predict. Your own draft law expressly concedes this
insecurity. Add the network to that. For offshore connecting
lines, your draft names investments in the sum of 5 to 10 billion
euros. These costs of the offshore network levy will be borne
by the electricity customers.
Dunja Kreiser (SPD): Nicely read! But still:
120,000 workplaces!
Yet that is not enough. Network construction, storage, reserve
power plants and measures for network stability belong to the
total consideration. Naturally can a better network utilization
reduce costs. Yet even the most efficient network connection
does not solve one, simple problem. During doldrums even a
perfectly connected wind park produces no electricity, ladies
and gentlemen. A primary school student knows this.
The OECD nuclear energy agency therefore correctly indicates
not only the generation costs of individual facilities be looked
at. Decisive are the costs of the entire electricity system,
including networks, flexibility, balance and supply security.
Precisely these total costs need finally be at mid-point.
Therefore, we say: First.
Johannes Fechner (SPD): Atomic power!
End EEG promotion. Second.
Johannes Fechner (SPD): Atomic power!
– No, that is point three. – Feasible, controllable power plant
performance, maintain or re-construct. Third. The re-entry into
nuclear energy, test technically and economically, and that
including newer reactor technologies.
Johannes Fechner (SPD): Na, klar! From Russia!
Supply security, economy and system costs need decide, not
politically defined construction numbers, certainly not when
these are based on ideology.
Alaa Alhamwi (Greens): Those are the renewables!
The people need affordable electricity, and our industry needs
reliable energy. Germany needs an energy policy again oriented
on physics and economy and not on wishes from cloud cuckoo
land.
In conclusion, yet a couple of words to the members of the
Union. If you do not want to sit here in the future with half
a team, I recommend to you: Come to your senses! Free
yourselves of Friedrich Merz and these cloud cuckoo land
developers!
Dunja Kreiser (SPD): What?
Jens Behrens (SPD): Please? So!
Alaa Alhamwi (Greens): What has that to do
with clouds?
Johannes Fechner (SPD): Cloud cuckoo land?
Sören Pellman (Linke): What then does that
have to do with clouds?
Nadine Heselhaus (SPD): Can you repeat that?
Dunja Kreiser (SPD): Again, without a recitation!
Use the conservative majority with those to the left of you.
Your children will thank you later.
I thank you not for your good Politik but for your attention.
I wish you all a pleasant good morning!
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