The German government has also decided to extend the activity of several coal power plants until the spring of 2024, even if it has set itself the goal of abandoning this energy in 2030.
Le Monde with AFP
Germany will extend the operation of its last three nuclear power plants, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Monday October 17. “The legal bases will be created to allow the functioning of the nuclear power plants Isar 2, Neckarwestheim 2 and Emsland beyond December 31, 2022 and until April 15, 2023”, specifies a letter from the chancellor to the government that the France-Presse agency (AFP) was able to consult.
Between energy imperatives and political considerations, Berlin had previously announced that the maintenance of two of the three power stations beyond the end of 2022.
friction within the coalition government
The first European economy strives to reduce its dependence on Russian energy imports in a context of war in Ukraine. Germany initially aims to leave nuclear before the end of 2022.
The fate of the Emsland power station (Basse-Saxe), in northern Germany, had aroused friction within the coalition government of Mr. Scholz (Social Democratic Party), between antinuclear and antinuclear and liberal democrats in particular. But the chancellor finally decided, without a consensus to have been found.
The German government has also decided to extend the activity of several coal power plants until the spring of 2024, even if it has set itself the goal of abandoning this energy in 2030.
The Swedish ecological activist Greta Thunberg considered it preferable to continue using nuclear power plants currently active in Germany rather than turning to coal, in an interview on German television, October 12.