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State party conference of the Greens: Every baby should become a shareholder in wind turbines

2023-05-20T11:28:18.783Z

Highlights: The Greens are proposing baby participation in wind turbines. Every newborn is to receive a 3000-euro share – and a "strong return" on their 18th birthday. Every year, 1000 solar energy systems are to be built, on roofs, facades, parking lots. 200 wind turbines are tobe built in the state forest. The hydropower plants on the Danube, Isar, Lech and Main rivers will be bought back by Uniper.. Malte Gallée and Henrike Hahn are Greens' top candidates for European elections.



Katharina Schulze and Ludwig Hartmann, top candidates of the Bavarian Greens for the state election in October 2023, at the state party convention in Erlangen. © Daniel Karmann/dpa

The Greens are proposing baby participation in wind turbines. Every newborn is to receive a 3000-euro share – and a "strong return" on their 18th birthday.

Erlangen – The Bavarian Greens meet in Middle Franconia for the state party conference. The party leadership wants to present its program for the state elections in October and demonstrate unity. Especially after Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) declared the Greens to be the biggest rival and there is trouble at the federal level because of nepotism and the heating law. On Saturday morning, the Greens' top candidate, Katharina Schulze, focused on core green issues: environmental protection, renewable energies - and a wind turbine push for newborns.

Bavarian Greens: Every baby should become a shareholder in wind turbines

Schulze wants to give children in Bavaria a share of ownership of wind turbines at birth. "The wind turbines in the state forest will then belong to Bavaria's children," she explained. According to this, every baby in the Free State should get a 3000-euro share of the wind turbines, and a "strong return" on their 18th birthday.

Co-lead candidate Ludwig Hartmann said: "We have been fighting for sun and wind for a long time - and so have many citizens. And what a fight this is, also against the Söder government. When we Greens govern in Bavaria, no one will have to fight so hard to get something as meaningful as a wind turbine."

Greens want state-owned energy company for Bavaria

In addition, Schulze and Hartmann spoke out in favour of the nationalisation of parts of energy production in the Free State. Specifically, the duo proposed a public energy company for Bavaria. Its goal must be to generate electricity from 100 percent renewable energy sources.

Every year, 1000 solar energy systems are to be built, on roofs, facades, parking lots. 200 wind turbines are to be built in the state forest. Both spoke out in favour of a solar obligation not only on new residential and commercial buildings, but also on roof renovations of older buildings. The hydropower plants on the Danube, Isar, Lech and Main rivers are to be bought back by Uniper. "The CSU is blocking new wind turbines and preventing cheap electricity," Schulze said. "It allows Bavaria's climate to heat up unchecked."

On Friday, the delegates in Erlangen nominated Malte Gallée (Bayreuth) and Henrike Hahn (Munich) as their top candidates for the next European elections. In addition to the top duo of Schulze and Hartmann and the party chairmen Eva Lettenbauer and Thomas von Sarnowski, Minister of State Claudia Roth was also expected in Erlangen on Saturday, and Federal Chairwoman Ricarda Lang on Sunday. (as/dpa)

Source: merkur

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