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Munich is phasing out coal and nuclear power: 90 percent of electricity from renewable energies by 2022

2022-01-18T11:54:50.893Z


Munich is phasing out coal and nuclear power: 90 percent of electricity from renewable energies by 2022 Created: 01/18/2022, 12:41 p.m By: Sascha Karowski Present and also future? A new natural gas power plant is to be built in Unterföhring. © Jens Hartmann At least the days of coal and nuclear power are numbered in Munich: the city will phase out these fuels this year. The goal of switching t


Munich is phasing out coal and nuclear power: 90 percent of electricity from renewable energies by 2022

Created: 01/18/2022, 12:41 p.m

By: Sascha Karowski

Present and also future?

A new natural gas power plant is to be built in Unterföhring.

© Jens Hartmann

At least the days of coal and nuclear power are numbered in Munich: the city will phase out these fuels this year.

The goal of switching to 100 percent green electricity by 2025 has almost been achieved.

But: It will continue even after 2025.

Munich - Munich will phase out coal combustion and nuclear power later this year.

This was announced by Mayor Dieter Reiter and the head of Stadtwerke München (SWM), Florian Bieberbach, on Tuesday.

"You don't do that en passant, it costs a lot of money," said Reiter.

"But we're going to end this.

This is a historic date, a historic message.”

Stadtwerke München: As early as 2022, 90 percent of electricity consumption from green electricity

As early as 2009, Munich set the course for switching to renewable energy. The aim was to generate as much green electricity by 2025 as households in Munich consume. That has already almost been achieved. "With the expansion campaign for renewable energies, SWM has increased its green electricity production from around 350 million kilowatt hours to 6.3 billion kilowatt hours per year," said Bieberbach. "This will enable us to cover 90 percent of the city's total electricity consumption from 2022."


The municipal utility now operates around 60 green power plants in and around Munich, including hydroelectric power plants, photovoltaic systems, wind and geothermal power plants and a biomass heating plant.

In addition, there are onshore and offshore wind farms, solar parks and a solar thermal power plant in Germany and Europe.

"We are confident that we will achieve our goal of 2025, 100 percent green electricity for the whole of Munich."

After that it won't be the end.

Because forecasts assume that the demand for electricity will increase after the target year - if only because of the conversion of the buses to electric operation.

"That's why we expanded the target.

We also want to cover the additional electricity demand with green electricity and will therefore continue to push ahead with the expansion offensive.”


Mayor Dieter Reiter: "I think I'm crazy if nuclear power is supposed to be sustainable"

The phasing out of coal combustion at the thermal power station North was demanded, among other things, by a referendum.

There plans to switch to natural gas before the end of this year.

The use of hydrogen is being examined in the long term.


The Isar 2 nuclear power plant is also going off the grid – the debate is not changing that, said Reiter.

"I think I'm crazy if nuclear power is to be declared sustainable." That thwarts every effort: "Without revenue, with a burden on taxpayers and customers."

Source: merkur

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