The majority of the city council supports the plans of the public utilities to operate the nuclear power plant Isar 2 beyond the end of the year. But only if the power supply in Bavaria is otherwise endangered.
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Heiner Effern
The majority of the Munich City Council supports the plans of Stadtwerke München (SWM) to let the Isar 2 nuclear power plant run longer than planned because of the energy crisis. The Supervisory Board of SWM recently decided unanimously to lobby the federal government to create the legal prerequisites for this as a precautionary measure. Operation would be planned if a stress test revealed that the power supply in Bavaria was in acute jeopardy. However, the majority of the Greens and SPD in the city council prevented a vote that was similar in content to that in the supervisory board.
A quarter of the kiln belongs to the Stadtwerke, the rest is owned by the Eon subsidiary Preussen-Elektra. The SPD, CSU, FDP and AfD pointed out with varying degrees of vehemence that operation beyond the shutdown date of December 31, 2022 could become important. The Greens remained very cautious and focused on examining whether this also made sense. The board of directors agreed. The prerequisite for the SPD was that more electricity could actually be produced and not just that the generation was distributed differently over time. The CSU and FDP also pushed for a possible operation beyond the summer of 2023. Stadtwerke boss Florian Bieberbach assumes that the stress test for Bavaria will be critical. The longer operation of Isar 2 will bring more power, he said. The looming energy crisis will not solve this, but will make “more than a small contribution” to it.
The left, like the ÖDP, rejected nuclear energy in any case. The ÖDP parliamentary group leader Tobias Ruff spoke in the direction of the Greens of “shock rigidity” and “panic attitude”. Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) and Deputy Mayor Katrin Habenschaden (Greens) each presented Ruff with a T-shirt with the imprint “Nuclear Power – Yes Please”. Based on the motto of the anti-nuclear power opponents “nuclear power – no thanks” this should demonstrate how Ruff sees green-red: as a person who has fallen over.