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By: Georg Anastasiadis
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The slow pace of the energy transition is becoming an expensive burden for citizens and a dangerous burden for some companies.
A comment from Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis.
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The Bavarian economy has drawn an “alarming” interim assessment of the energy transition: the slow pace is putting some companies in a dangerous situation.
A comment by Georg Anastasiadis.
The saying has what it takes to become a German hit: our country must finally “do instead of just want to,” demands the chief lobbyist for the Bavarian economy, Bertram Brossardt.
He calls the new interim balance of his Bavarian Business Association (vbw) on the energy transition “alarming”.
This is aimed in the same way at those in power in Berlin as in Munich: Bavaria has only installed seven (!) new wind turbines in 2023.
The vbw calculates that the pace of expansion would have to be 20 times faster in order to ensure the availability of green electricity and thus the competitiveness of local companies.
Things are hardly looking any better when it comes to the construction of the large north-south overland power lines, which are intended to transport wind power from the north to the south.
Because of Scholz's “Germany pace”: Because of the lengthy approval procedures, progress here is also slow.
It was mainly Bavarian politicians from Seehofer to Aiwanger who, with their warnings about the famous “monster routes”, ensured that Bavaria became dependent on itself.
Energy transition remains a life-threatening situation for some companies
So the German energy transition remains a torso that is expensive for citizens and life-threatening for some companies.
The subsidized industrial electricity price for large, internationally competing companies, which the vbw managing director is constantly calling for because otherwise there would be a risk of de-industrialization, will not be available any time soon because of Christian Lindner's empty coffers.
And the Green Climate Minister Habeck recently had to meekly admit another setback: Instead of the 50 new gas power plant blocks that are actually needed, which are supposed to provide energy when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine, there will now only be 20 - that's more not financeable.
This also means that the coal phase-out by 2030, which the traffic light government is aiming for, is shaky. The climate will have to wait.
The nuclear phase-out in 2023 was more important. On Thursday, the Federal Audit Office said: “The energy transition is not on track.
The federal government must urgently change course.”
This woman really deserves the traffic light.
George Anastasiadis