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A new core network for hydrogen transportation with great economic potential is being built in eastern Germany. The construction is intended to strengthen the region as a center for sustainable energy.
On May 14, 2024, Germany covered almost all of its electricity consumption with renewable energies - a significant milestone for the energy transition.
Stadtwerke Leipzig is investing around 40 million euros in a large-scale solar thermal plant in order to integrate renewable energies into the heat supply in future.
Regardless of the mood in the state, the Greens in Saxony want to maintain their course and advocate the modernization of the Free State.
The head of lignite producer Mibrag, Armin Eichholz, currently sees little chance of a premature coal phase-out in the east. Mibrag operates the Vereinigtes Schleenhain and Profen opencast mines in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt and generates electricity from the coal in the Schkopau and Lippendorf power plants, which are due to be taken off the grid in 2034/2035. The "traffic light" federal government would ideally like to bring forward the coal phase-out in the east from 2038 to 2030, but the Minister Presidents of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg are against this. Eichholz emphasized that the expansion of renewable energies is putting pressure on coal-fired power generation, but that the question of supply during lulls and when there is little sunshine is also relevant. The plans envisage the construction of around 40 gas-fired power plant units by 2030, but whether this is feasible remains questionable. Eichholz also emphasized that power plants would have to keep running if the supply of renewable energies was scarce and that coal could hardly be avoided if the gas-fired power plants were not completed in time. The question of whether it is still worthwhile for the power plant operators is also open.
Comparison of nuclear and wind energy: costs, performance and environment - an insight into two central energy sources of our time.
Environment Minister Wolfram Günther provides information on the expansion of renewable energies in Saxony and presents a bill on the energy transition in the district of Meißen. Other topics include talks in the cabinet and the 'Integrative Measures' funding guideline.
The transformation of the global energy economy away from fossil fuels to alternative and renewable energies must be the goal of a climate protection policy without self-deception. On the way there, many temptations of green washing lurk.